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»	Compaq Alpha Systems Performance in e-Business and Technical Computing Technology Brief (pdf) Compaq Alpha systems are the fastest in all of the important tests for business performance, such as online transaction processing (OLTP) and analysis (OLAP) with popular business software such as SAP R/3 and SAS.
»	How Many VUPs is that Alpha in the window? Our performance group is often asked to compare Alpha and VAX systems in terms of VUPs. We are unable to do so, for reasons described in this article. But other comparisons are possible, and may be of even greater interest.
Industry standard sites

»	Transaction Processing Council (TPC)
»	The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC)
»	MARC
»	Abaqus

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