Results for the Transaction Processing Performance Council’s TPC-A suite running on Hewlett-Packard Co’s new HP9000 and HP3000 series Nova systems start at 20.8 transactions per second, TPS, and $16,700 per transaction per second, for the 807S; 33.7 TPS and $14,700 per TPS for the 827S; and 42.8 TPS and $14,400 per TPS for the 847S. UK prices for the new Novas go from under UKP10,000 to around UKP130,000. The 34 MIPS HP 9000 Model 807S, and 53 MIPS-rated 817S and 837S – each available from August, supporting from 16 to 40 users – are priced at UKP9,772, UKP15,080 and UKP32,422 respectively. Models 827S, 847S and 857S all rated at 53 MIPS, supporting from 64 to 160 users and out in September – cost UKP18,850, UKP49,010 and UKP71,630. Prices include CPU, the HP-UX Unix implementation, standard memory and disk, console and tape drive. The 10 new HP 3000 models are all available from October, and prices for the proprietary MPE-based systems, which support from eight to 600 users go from UKP11,000 for the 917LX series to UKP128,180 for the 967. And Hewlett says that Hughes Data Systems will be doing a Tempested version of the 700 Snake workstations for government and defence markets, the first based upon the model 720 CRX. Out around October, it will cost from UKP20,000.
