Oracle Corp yesterday claimed a number of performance records at the official launch in New York of Oracle Version 6, the new on line transaction processing version of its relational data base management system (CI No 957): using the standard TPI benchmark, Oracle set records by running 265 TPI transactions per second on an IBM 3090-600E mainframe running MVS, 49 TPI transactions per second on a DEC VAX 6240 running VMS, and 110 TPI transactions per second on a large supermicro from Sequent running Unix; the company also claims dramatic gains in cost-per-transaction; the full production release of Version 6 will be out within 90 days in each of the benchmarked environments and releases for VM/CMS, Sun, Pyramid, Hewlett-Packard, Data General, Macintoshes and MS DOS and PS/2 micros will follow shortly.
