Help choose Unix: Solaris or HPUX or AIX or ???

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Date: 11 Jun 2004 10:28:14 -0700

Hi all,

I have very little experience with the candidates, so I need your help
to pick up the Unix HW/flavor. It will run a 80Gb DB. DB engine is
Informix IDS 9.x. It should support 64 bit architecture. LVM is very
desirable. The system will be used by approximately 400-500 users.

I'm probably looking at a 4 CPU system with at least 4Gb of RAM, about
150-200Gb of mirrored SCSI drives for the file system and the DB. This
system should have some room to grow - a couple of extra CPU sockets,
a couple of extra RAM slots, etc.

Please tell pros and cons for the Unices I specified. Or maybe you
think there is a better choice. What would you choose and why. I'm
also interested to hear your comments on native vs non-native hardware
(AFAIK Solaris can run on AMD as well), costs, support, anything that
you think is worth mentioning.

Thanks,
Alex.

P.S. cc to my email is appreciated.

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