Karl writes: > While you don't have the machine yet.. you can do all these comparisons > using specint_rate2006, depends on what P750 you are getting then compare > it to your intel hardware of choice. Here's the data points Thanks Karl and others for the spec suggestion. I did look at that, but missed the POWER 750 because IBM didn't supply numbers for specint2006, just specint_rate2006. Curious...unless specint2006 is just easy to calculate (rate/cores)? I also looked at TPC even though I feel it's heavily skewed by unreasonable configurations. But no POWER 750 for C, E, or H. That's OK. The specint_rate2006 seems to lean (heavily!) toward POWER. Thanks again! Rich -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l