[61] in SAPr3-news
Business Wire Article 4-3-95
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Date: 3 Apr 1995 20:53:43 -0400
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FYI:
Kaliana
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 3, 1995--Sun Microsystems
Computer Company and SAP AG today released performance results for SAP's
R/3 application suite running on Sun(TM) SPARC(R) systems. In tests at
Sun's new SAP Enterprise Lab, Sun and SAP achieved 1,800 financial and
600 sales- and-distribution benchmark users, the largest number of users
to date for an R/3 benchmark.
According to SAP, Sun has quickly become SAP's fastest-growing system
vendor, signing more than 180 contracts worldwide since the R/3
application suite on Sun platforms began shipping in April, 1994. "This is
excellent news for SAP customers," stated Dr. Hasso Plattner, vice
chairman of SAP. "Sun has moved quickly to provide a highly scalable
platform to support the rapid growth of SAP."
"Customers want concrete verification that they can achieve
mainframe-class results in very large R/3 implementations," said Scott
McNealy, chairman, president and CEO of Sun Microsystems, Inc. "These
results not only set an industry record, but more importantly demonstrate
Sun and SAP's joint commitment to deliver integrated network computing
solutions for the largest enterprises."
This announcement shows that network computing solutions can benefit
even the largest enterprise applications and can provide business
flexibility far beyond mainframe-style architectures. The flexible
three-tier architecture of R/3 keeps enterprise data integrated, while
allowing for distribution of the application servers that perform the
business logic and user interface processing.
The test configuration included a SPARCcenter(TM) 2000 database server
and several SPARCserver(TM) 1000E application servers running the
Solaris(TM) 2.4 environment, which optimizes network computer
connectivity and the threading of the application across multiple
processors. The SAP R/3 standard benchmarks simulate financial and
sales-and-distribution users performing intensive and frequent
transactions.
To ensure successful customer implementations, SAP and Sun have formed
SAP-Sun Competency Centers, located in the U.S., Europe, the Far East,
and Africa. These centers provide technical assistance for the
configuration/sizing, installation and operation of SAP R/3 applications
on Sun systems. With the Platinum-level, round-the-clock service program
from Sun Service, SunSpectrumTM, and more than 12,000 systems installed
in mission-critical environments, Sun is delivering the benefits of
network computing to enterprises around the globe.
The SPARCcenter 2000 is Sun's mainframe-caliber server that offers a
reliable, powerful, scalable platform with all the benefits of open
systems and network computing. In addition, the inherent scalability of
the Solaris 2.4 operating environment lets customers achieve the lowest
cost incremental growth path as their needs expand or change. The
combination of the SPARCcenter 2000, Solaris 2.4 and the customer's
choice of Informix OnLine, Oracle7 or Software AG's ADABAS D provides an
ideal platform for the database server in R/3's client-server
architecture.
As an R/3 application server, each SPARCserver 1000E is capable of
supporting more than 175 financial benchmark users. When combined with
Solstice(TM), Sun's enterprise management solution, customers can reduce
the complexity of network computing by using a manageable number of
servers to run their data centers.
This testing program, under the auspices of Sun's new SAP Enterprise
Lab, was a cooperative engineering project between Sun, SAP, and Sun
database partners to study the characteristics of very large network
computing applications. Not only did the companies demonstrate what can
be delivered today, but the results are now driving development plans for
future products capable of even larger implementations.
Founded 22 years ago, SAP has grown to become one of the largest
independent software companies in the world and is the market leader in
standard business applications. The company, which is headquartered in
Walldorf, Germany, now employees 5,200 people. Currently comprising 30
subsidiaries and affiliates, as well as 25 additional offices, the SAP
Group is represented in 34 countries and 50 different locations
worldwide. With its standard systems, R/2 for mainframes and R/3 for
client-server platforms, SAP serves over 4,000 customers in 41 countries.
Sun Microsystems Computer Company (SMCC), the world's top supplier of
open network computing solutions, is part of Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Built on Sun's legacy of "The Network is the Computer(TM)," SMCC's
SPARC(R)/Solaris(TM) product family leads the open systems market. The
company has its headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.
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Note: Sun, the Sun logo, Sun Microsystems, Solaris, Solstice,
SunSpectrum, SunSpectrum Platinum and The Network is the Computer are
trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of Sun Microsystems,
Inc. All SPARC trademarks, including the SCD Compliant logo, are
trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc.are
licensed exclusively to Sun Microsystems, Inc. SPARCcenter and
SPARCserver are licensed exclusively to Sun Microsystems, Inc. Products
bearing SPARC trademarks are based on an architecture developed by Sun
Microsystems, Inc. All other product or service names mentioned herein
are trademarks of their respective owners.
Press announcements and other information about Sun Microsystems are
available on the Internet via the World Wide Web. Type
http://www.sun.com.
.sun.com.
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CONTACT:
Sun Microsystems Computer Company
Steve Fritz, 415/336-0597
Burson-Marsteller
Lou Harm, 212/614-4967
SAP America
Peg Culotta, 610/ 595-4500
The Weber Group
Cathy Thompson, 415/325-8300
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Miss Kaliana Kellye of West Michigan
(Van Buren County on the Lake Michigan Shoreline)
Where an endlessly blue sky and sparkling sunshine
have the Ruby Throated Sparrows singing at the
feeder outside my window.
"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
Bill Gates, 1981
April 3, 1995
8:49 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time
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