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2. The Only Database That Has Taken Up The Challenge Of TPC-E To Date “Oracle and IBM are focused on publishing on TPC-C. SQL Server has chosen to focus on TPC-E as it is better reflect modern customer scenarios and performance needs” Source: www.tpc.org, As of November 23, 2009: SQL Server 2008 R2 on Unisys ES7000 Model 7600R, 2012.77 tpsE, $958.23 USD/tpsE, available 5/6/10

3. Best Data Warehouse Price/Performance Source: www.tpc.org, As of November 23, 2009: SQL Server 2008 on the HP ProLiant DL380 G6, 51,422 QphH@100GB, $1.07 USD/QphH@100GB, available 9/14/09, SQL Server 2008 on the HP ProLiant DL785 G6, 91,558 QphH@300GB, $1.94 USD/QphH@300GB, available 7/31/09 SQL Server 2008 on the HP ProLiant DL785 G6, 81,514 QphH@100GB, $2.9 USD/QphH@1000GB, available 11/9/09, SQL Server 2008 on the Unisys ES7000 7600R, 102,778 QphH@3000GB, $21.05 USD/QphH@300GB, available 11/2/09 SQL Server 2008 on the Unisys ES700 7600R, 80,172 QphH@10000GB, $18.95 USD/QphH@10000GB, available 2/17/09, Oracle 11GR2 on the HP blade c class, 1166976 QphH@1000GB, $18.95 USD/QphH@1000GB, available 9/1/09 Oracle 10GR2 on the SunFire E25K, 114713 QphH@3000GB, $36.68 USD/QphH@3000GB, available 4/9/07, Oracle 11G on the HP Integrity Superdome, 208457 QphH@10000GB, $27.97 USD/QphH@10000GB, available 3/10/08 DB2 9.1 on the SunFire X4500, 38672 QphH@3000GB, $29.39 USD/QphH@3000GB, available 10/12/07, DB2 9.5 on the IBM system P570, 343551 QphH@10000GB, $32.89 USD/QphH@10000GB, available 10/15/07

4. World Leading ISV Application Performance On Commodity Hardware Certification Number 2008003: SAP SD standard SAP ERP 6.0 (2005) application benchmark in 3-Tier configuration certified on 02/26/08 with Number of benchmark users & comp.: 34,000 SD (Sales & Distribution) with an average dialog response time: 1.99 seconds running Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition (64-Bit) and SQL Server 2008 (64-bit) on RDBMS database server. Hardware configuration of RDBMS server: HP ProLiant BL680c G5, 4 processor/16 core/16 thread Quad-Core Intel Xeon E7340 / 2.40GHz, 64GB RAM. For more details, see http://www.sap.com/benchmark. * Response time in seconds

5. Extending the Performance Story with Hardware Innovation (SSD) Source: www.tpc.org, As of November 23, 2009: SQL Server 2008 on the HP ProLiant DL380 G6, 51,422 QphH@100GB, $1.07 USD/QphH@100GB, available 9/14/09 SQL Server 2008 on the Dell PowerEdge T610, 28,772 QphH@100GB, $1.46 USD/QphH@100GB, available 06/02/09

6. World Leader In Other Business Application Performance

7. Best in class virtualization(Hyper-V) performance % CPU Throughput (Batch requests/sec) Relative Throughput for Windows Server 2008 Performance to help you take advantage of virtualization