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

From: slrn (slrn_at_rr.com)
Date: 06/11/04 

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 18:44:06 GMT

On 11 Jun 2004 10:28:14 -0700, root2038@yahoo.com <root2038@yahoo.com> wrote:
>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

Then you should not be the one making the decision for your company.

>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.

Talk to different sales rep for different type of OS. Visit all three
websites of the competing platforms and get their partners/vendors
name and company to explore your options. 

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