RE: New system, cart blanche, what to buy

>I would vote for AIX and RS/6000. From my experience, those are robust
>servers and IBM has got good phone support. However, I do not

I would fully second that. (And your SAs are going to love its easy Admin capabilities)

>real bad experience. Other than that, AIX is one of the best OSs I have
>worked on. FWIW .. truss will be available with AIX 5L (this
>fall, I was
>told).

That's good news, Kirti. However, there are lots of other utilities out there from IBM that they have not really advertised or pushed out for AIX - I wonder why...

John Kanagaraj

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