Oracle Web performance advert

In a recent issue of computing Oracle took out a full page advert 'bragging' about how quick they were when compared with other dynamic web servers.

see http://www.oracle.com/java for details.

What has me so irate is that they seem to be proud about ~600ms per hit, compared to 1.2 seconds per hit for thier 'worst' competitor (thier figures).

Given that I am currently unhappy with our average performance of 200ms per hit (250 to 170) on live servers runnig on low end
(antique) linux boxes with 128m ram and single 00mz Athlon and
am realistically aiming for less than 50ms per hit on more commercial platforms with a bit more performance work on the underlying technology, how can someone be *proud* that they take over half a second to process a single web page request?

This means that if a single page consist of HTML + three inline dynamic graphs it takes over two seconds to render
(as far as the user is concerned) the entire page.

Any comments on what people think a decent dynapage hit rate should be? Hopefully they prefer 50 rather that 500ms :-)

Jacqui Received on Mon Feb 11 2002 - 08:05:43 CST