Sun Microsystems Inc is concerned that readers may get the impression it has revoked all its TPC-D performance numbers across-the-board following our story last week (CI No 3,316). It says it’s withdrawn TPC-D benchmarks only for it high-end E10000 machine, aka StarFire. TPC rules say a system configuration must be available for purchase within six month of the publication of the benchmark results. Solaris 2.6, which was benchmarked on the machines, will not be ready in time to satisfy the rules. Originally 2.6 was expected to available for StarFire in December, then it was pushed to March. Two sets of data warehousing benchmarks were withdrawn, one running Oracle, the other Informix.
