From: AIX geek (aixgeek@YAHOO.COM)
Date: Wed Sep 25 2002 - 11:13:55 EDT
Still, Dave has a good point to take into account all
the software. There are a LOT of software vendors who
really want to you to stay closely aligned with a
certain maintenance level, because they haven't tested
their software on higher levels. I can think of
several examples.
I know of cases where support was not forthcoming
(whether or not that's the correct approach is a
different argument) because the maintenance level on
the client's machine was "higher" than what was
"called for".
Yes, that's probably a bad practice on the case of the
software developer, but ... people's businesses run on
the software. The OS is really a secondary
consideration.
--- justin.bleistein@SUNGARD.COM wrote:
> Dave be careful. I believe it's AIX 5.2b that will
> support all software
> such as db2, tivoli, oracle etc. AIX 5.1 I know for
> a fact has alot of
> capatibility issues with software you'll end up
> installing it and find
> library link errors and applications not running. I
> suggest to everyone who
> asks about AIX 5L wait for AIX5.2bL. IBM is planning
> that this version will
> be like 4.3.3 was to the 4.0.0 O/S family. It will
> be the most stable,
> backward compatible and no changes are to be made to
> that for a while.
> There's also hopes of that version being ML free!.
> With the exceptions of
> APARS from time to time of course.
>
> --Justin
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> Thanks for all the great suggestions
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> I will need to further consult with the client as to
> their preference
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> There are other software and firmware that need to
> be upgraded
> as well
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> Thanks!
>
> Dave Zarnoch
> UNIX Systems Engineer
> SunGard eSourcing
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