From: Marcelino Mata (mmata@MULTIMATIC.COM)
Date: Fri Jan 16 2004 - 15:02:34 EST
Thersa.
I have AIX and Solaris servers and clients and I can not really say Solaris
is worse. It really depends on your application. I can tell you things I
like about both. In my company, purchase cost is bottom line so Solaris
servers win. Even if Solaris involved more admin time they would not
care...they would tell me that's what I'm paid for. AIX wins out in Admin
tools (SMIT). I have not found anything on Sun as good but I'm a old time
SUN Admin so I have not looked very hard since I know the commands I need.
Solaris GUI Admin tools usually consist of many different tools unlike the
one stop SMIT tool. In this regard, Solaris has a longer learning curve.
But this still depends on your applications. In my case, once the Solaris
server/client is setup I never touch them again (same as AIX).
Marcelino
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Theresa Sarver [mailto:tsarver@IFMC.SDPS.ORG]
>Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 2:01 PM
>To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
>Subject: Solaris9 and AIX5
>
>
>Hi All;
>
>My company is an AIX shop; however, SUN has a Solaris 9 lab
>setup in an attempt to [try to] sell us some hardware...the
>one thing I've noticed is that there is an awful lot of
>reboots required for Solaris (in comparison to AIX)...does
>anyone know off the top of their head what all requires reboots on SUN?
>
>It also appears (as an outsider looking in) that the amount of
>sys_admin_time on Solaris would be greatly increased. Is this
>an accurate presumption or is my *bias* overpowering my vision! :)
>
>
>Thanks for your info!
>Theresa
>
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