ENT News | News: High-end Microsoft Stack Cheaper Than TPC Comparison Suggests: "When running basically on the same huge HP Superdome server with 64 Itanium 2 processors, the HP-UX/Oracle combo performed 17 percent better than Windows/SQL. HP-UX/Oracle 10G scored 824,164 transactions per minute on the TPC-C (tpmC). Windows/SQL reached 707,102 tpmC. The cost per transaction for HP-UX/Oracle was $8.28/tpmC on the $6.8 million configuration. Microsoft's cost per transaction was $7.16/tpmC on a $5 million total configuration"