Why are products not required to execute the benchmark, such as administration, maintenance and application development included in the pricing?
Products for administration and maintenance are necessary in all production environments. The intent of this benchmark is to emulate robust 24X7 production systems executing electronic commerce applications. Tools for application development, such as compilers, are priced if they are required to build applications running during the benchmark on the system under test (SUT). Sponsors using commercial Commerce Software Packages must include the price of these software components, which are ordinarily much more costly than the compilers and development tools. Requiring the pricing of commerce software packages but not of development tools would give greater unfair advantage to sponsors opting to develop their own software in lieu of using commercial packages.
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