Re: AIX vs SUN - HP - Linux

From: Tim Hempstead (tim@sevigny.demon.co.uk)
Date: Wed Jan 22 2003 - 14:25:44 EST


Depends if you have OnlineJFS or not ... which i think is still extra
$$$

Tim

> Well, last I knew, under HP 11.0, you had to unmount filesystems to extend
> them. Or was it 10.0 ?
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> What they make up for in support "ease", they'll loose in performance.
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> "Theresa Sarver" <tsarver.IFMC@SDPS.ORG>
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> Hi all;
>
> Current Environment:
> SP 9076 - 1 Frame, 7 Nodes
> AIX 433 ML10
> PSSP 32
> IBM 3494 (w/ 2 3590 drives)
> TSM 415 (soon to be 5x)
> TDP/Oracle and RMAN
> Oracle 816, 817, 9i
> Apache ??
> Netscape ??
> And a whole slew of homemade Apps made in whatever product happened to be
> hot that particular month.
>
> I just received word this morning that management is now considering
> moving OFF of AIX and onto either HP, SUN, or LINUX...and basically I need
> to study the pro's/con's of each vendor for a meeting later this week. So
> if anyone has any websites or personal experiences with any of these other
> OS's I'd really appreciate any feedback.
>
> For example how would you rate each vendor's ease of administration for
> the oprating system and hardware, overall support, performance and
> reliability, or anything else you could think of.
>
> As for what is driving the "potential change", I guess the
> DBA's/Developers are frusterated that AIX is considered a 5th tier
> platform by Oracle (Sun being #1) and as they have so much invested in
> Oracle...we need to evaluate other hardware. ;)
>
> God I love this job!
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> Thanks for the feedback;
> Theresa
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