Re: Solaris vs AIX

DTrace and ZFS for starters.


Plus Solaris can run on x86 systems. How is that for low cost training?
It
is the best OS for Java and networking applications. There are much
more

java is hardly the best for anything other than NOC techs who have to
reboot stuff at night and RAM manufacturers.


Hmmm, I wonder why it is running everywhere including AIX and mainframe.

Hype and useless managers dreaming of being on the cover of IT week. Java
is garbage. It's not that horrible apps cannot be written in other ways,
but the "hey this is easy and faster" java approach just encourages a
mess.


Why would it encourage mess? I think it is cleaner than most languages out
there.

Nobody reboots a mainframe nightly, but restarting weblogic daily is not
considered all that absurd. That's really sad.



Restarting anything nightly is absurd.

x86 support is nice. There's no other way I'd run out and get a sun
built
server though.


That's why Solaris give you more options. If I don't want to get IBM
built
server for AIX, do I have a choice?

The options IBM restricts are running AIX on trash hardware. You don't get
to anymore. The last intel release was AIX 2.


So any hardware AIX does not run on is trash.

applications available on Solaris than AIX. CPUs with different speeds
can
run in the same box, and how about the ability to run 32 threads in a
single

IBM had that first, not even counting the purchase of Sequent.


Had what first?

support for mixed processors.

So you are telling me AIX servers suport mixed processors.


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