IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that WebSphere Application Server, a key building block for services oriented architecture (SOA), shattered a popular industry benchmark for scalability and performance by more than 33 percent using technology that costs half the price of the competition.
Businesses rely on application servers to build, run, integrate and manage hundreds or even thousands of software applications. This makes high performance and scalability of these application servers critical to the success of a company's SOA strategy. IBM delivered more than 50 million business transactions per hour, beating the previous mark held by Oracle in The Standard Performance Evaluation Corp.'s (SPEC) SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark, an independent, industry-standard benchmark that measures the scalability and performance of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application servers.
