From: Mary Deane (fclmmd@NERSP.NERDC.UFL.EDU)
Date: Wed Jan 22 2003 - 21:46:07 EST
Theresa
I attended an IBM Technical University presentation a couple of years ago
on "administering the multi-platrorm environment". The presenter was
carefully neutral, but I captured her afterwards and said point-blank that
from her description, it seemed like AIX was easier to administer in a
multi-server, especially an SP-type environment. She, who delivers remote
support to all the environments you mention with the exception of Linux,
agreed heartily.
We, the Florida Center for Library Automation, who run the integrated
library management system for all 11 state universities in Florida (making
us larger in the agregate than Harvard) are in the process of migrating to
ExLibris, a totally unix-based system. We did competitive bidding, but
were not totally limited to lowest. IBM with a half-populated p690 not
only came in lowest in $ but with advantages in areas you should think
about. Oracle runs egually well on AIX, as their reps regularly assure our
local friends. And here in Gainesville, FL, not a major metropolitan area,
we have major IBM CE's, the chief of whom works from an office in the
North East Regional Data Center on the University of Florida Campus where
our hardware resides. Sun could offer us only 4-hour service fron
Jacksonville, or Orlando, or Tallahassee.
Assuming your users expect 7x24, as ours certainly do, service availability
and general RAS, at in this case a lower maintenance cost down the road,
are a significant argument.
Cheers
Mary
http://webluis.fcla.edu
http://www.fcla.edu
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Theresa Sarver wrote:
> 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!
>
> Thanks for the feedback;
> Theresa
>
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