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San Jose, California — July 7, 2000 — The Transaction
Processing
Performance Council (TPC™) today announced a new
transactional benchmark
standard for e-commerce, e-business, web-based commerce and
business-to-business commerce over the web. TPC Benchmark W
(TPC-W™) is
designed to model businesses (retail store, software
distribution, airline
reservation, electronic stock trades, etc.) that market and
sell over the
Internet.
TPC-W provides both performance and price/performance
metrics allowing the
comparison of commercially available technologies upon which
these
environments are based. The benchmark will measure the
performance of systems
supporting users browsing, ordering, and conducting
transaction oriented
business activities. TPC-W is the only industry standard
workload in the
e-commerce space, addressing the critical need for an
objective benchmark in
this new business area.
Twenty-three companies were involved in the development
of this benchmark,
which was subsequently approved by the entire TPC
membership. "The
cooperation between companies which occurred to come to
agreement on this
benchmark in record time shows clearly how much this
benchmark was needed,"
stated Jerrold Buggert, Chairman of the TPC-W benchmark
development
subcommittee and Chairman of the TPC.
Commenting on future versions of the benchmark, Jim
Enright, Chairman of
the TPC-W maintenance subcommittee, said, "We are
committed to tracking this
rapidly evolving environment as new standards and
methodologies are developed
by providing timely version updates."
The workload in the TPC-W benchmark is performed in a
controlled Internet
commerce environment that simulates the activities of a
business oriented
transactional web server. It includes a mix of static images
and dynamic page
generation. In the case of dynamic page generation, database
accesses and
updates are made while maintaining consistent web objects
and transaction
integrity. Realistic cross database contention occurs during
both data access
and update. The required electronic commerce functions
include secure browser
communications with SSL, persistent shopping carts and
secure on-line payment
authorization.
As in other TPC benchmarks, independent certified
auditors, full
disclosure requirements, Technical Advisory Board review and
Fair Use rules
provide a level of integrity unique to the industry. For
more information on
TPC-W, see http://www.tpc.org/tpcw/.
34 TPC Members Worldwide
The TPC is a non-profit consortium of major computer system
and software
companies, founded to define transaction processing and
database benchmarks
and to disseminate objective, verifiable TPC performance
data to the industry. The TPC was established in August, 1988 by eight leading
software and hardware
companies, and consists now of 34 members from North
America, Asia, Australia,
and Europe. TPC members are: Acer, BEA, Bowstreet, Bull,
Compaq, Data Return, Dell, EDS, EMC, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard,
Hitachi, IBM, Informix,
Intel, ITOM International Co., Microsoft, NCR, NEC, Network
Appliance, Inc.,
Oracle, Progress Software, Santa Cruz Operations, Fujitsu,
Silicon Graphics,
Sun Microsystems, Sybase, Toshiba, Unisys, White Cross
Systems, Harris Teeter,
Inc., Ideas International, SES, Velogic, Inc.
Other industry players in the area of Web commerce are
invited to join the
TPC effort. Those interested should visit the TPC web site
at:
http://www.tpc.org/.
NOTE: TPC Benchmark and TPC-W are trademarks of the
Transaction
Processing Performance Council.
For more information, contact:
TPC, Michael Majdalany
Voice: 415-750-8260
Fax: 415-751-4829
Email:
info@tpc.org
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