BANGALORE, INDIA:  Red Hat, a provider of open source solutions, today announced that it has achieved a powerful, record-setting TPC-C benchmark that demonstrates the rapid improvements that open source software can bring to overall performance and costs.

According to a company statement, in its fifth TPC-C result over 1M tpmC, Red Hat reduced price performance to a level 20 per cent lower than the best competing non-Red-Hat result with a combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 on an IBM System x 3950 M2 with the new Intel X7460 Xeon processor.
 
The Red Hat-based benchmark system delivered 1,200,632 transactions per minute and improved the price performance to $1.99, delivering a 20 per cent savings in comparison to competitors, said a press release.

It proves its capability to handle substantial transactional workloads with its ability to process over 20,000 transactions per second. 
 
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides an extremely capable and reliable platform for customers' heavily demanding high-performance, high-scale platforms," said Scott Crenshaw, vice president, Platform Business Unit at Red Hat. 

"We broke our first 1M tpmC barrier back in December 2003, which was two years before others in the industry, like Microsoft, reported their first 1M TPC-C results.  With our latest record-breaking benchmark, we've again raised the bar for performance and cost-efficiency and have demonstrated proven benefits from the fast-innovating open source model, " he added.
 
The release added that the Red Hat-based, IBM solution offers headroom for growth and the opportunity to run simultaneous background jobs to produce bills and consolidate invoices, all while providing rapid response to customer orders and queries.