SPECjAppServer2001 and SPECjAppServer2002 both had a price/performance metric. Why doesn SPECjEnterprise2010 have one?
A16: SPECjAppServer2001 and SPECjAppServer2002 were the first benchmarks released by SPEC that contained a price/performance metric. They were released for a year with the price/performance metric as an experiment so that SPEC could determine if the benefit of this metric was worth the costs involved. SPEC OSSC (Open Systems Steering Committee) reviewed the arguments for and against the price/performance metric and voted to remove it on new benchmarks.
