[Dominic Harr]

The top Sun processor they tested was a UltraSPARC II 464 MHz.

The current top Sun Processor is the UltraSPARC[tm] III Cu 900-MHz processors.

And if total cost is your goal, you *have* to include Linux. This is how you 'cook the books' to create a great announcement for Bill Gates.

I will now leave this thread to it's regularly scheduled free MS advertising.

[Bush2000]

And if total cost is your goal, you *have* to include Linux. This is how you 'cook the books' to create a great announcement for Bill Gates.

IBM and Oracle could have used any OS they wanted. Sorry, your complaint doesn't wash. Since Linux isn't owned by anybody, nobody feels any particular obligation to make it any better in these tests. That includes its biggest proponent: IBM.