Intel Corp. released a new software product suite that is designed to enhance the performance of XML in service-oriented architecture (SOA) environments, or other environments where XML handling needs optimization. Intel XML Software Suite 1.0, which was announced earlier this month, provides libraries to help accelerate XSLT, XPath, XML schemas and XML parsing. XML performance was found to be twice that of open source solutions when Intel tested its product, according to Stephen Pettit, product marketing engineer for Intel's XML products. Intel isn't picking on open source per se in saying that, he noted.
"The reason we are saying 'open source' is there is no real industry benchmark standards for XML performance….It's a comparison," Pettit said.
Intel is widely known for its hardware chipsets, including the company's new dual-core processors. XML Software Suite works on any x86-based system, although Pettit added that users of the Intel XML Software Suite will "see even better performance over Intel architecture."
