Destination:
SPARC
Organizations are following Oracle’s SPARC roadmap to improved performance.

BY DAVID A. KELLY

In 2010 Oracle committed to delivering new SPARC chips and server hardware every 12 to

18 months. Over a five-year period, this SPARC roadmap called for improvement of 4 times the cores, 32 times the threads, 16 times the memory capacity, 40 times the database transactions, and 10 times the Java operations per second. So far, on-the-ground results exceed those commitments.

Instead of what was promised on the SPARC and Oracle Solaris roadmap, Oracle is delivering more. The driving time to major SPARC milestones has gotten shorter, and with the recent release of the SPARC T4 chip, Oracle is providing better-than-promised performance.