Fabric7 SPECjbb2005 benchmark shows x86, Linux ready for enterprise computing

Fabric7 Systems Inc. of Mountain View, Calif. has set new standards of performance on the SPECjbb2005 (Java Server) computing benchmark with its Q160 enterprise server.

According to the company, the results of the benchmark testing, published on the SPEC website (www.spec.org), establishes that the company's next generation architecture delivers enterprise scalability on industry standard hardware and operating systems - bringing the economics of x86 systems and Linux to the core of the datacenter.

Fabric7 achieved the first truly scalable SPECjbb2005 Linux results, with the findings clearly demonstrating the major advances in performance that Fabric7's unique server design delivers, including:

* Industry record results for x86 server scalability with a 300 percent advantage over alternative x86 servers;

* The industry's first scalable and hardware partitionable server that can be configured as 2-core, 4-core, 8-core or 16-core and deliver from

32,378 to 148,210 bops (business operations per second);