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Bill - You may want to check with your system administrators. My
understanding is that the two systems are pretty much identical from the
user standpoint, but that AIX is quite a bit difference from the sys admin's
point of view. It may make a difference, depending on your sys admin's
background, but maybe not enough to change the purchase decision.
Another thing to consider: what is the timeframe of your purchase. We have gotten very good use from our Dec/Compaq/HP Alphas, but decided not to continue investing in the line. We looked around and Solaris seems to have the strongest path to the future. Most Unix vendors, like HP, seem to be planning to switch to the Intel Itanium, the chip without a proven "today", let alone tomorrow. I don't know what IBM plans for the future in terms of chips. If this is just a single system purchase, then it probably doesn't matter so much.
Dennis Williams
DBA, 40%OCP
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
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Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 12:49 PM
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Hello,
What are the major differences between AIX and Solaris regarding operating system features?
We are planning a new machine purchase; currently we are on a Sun machine
running Solaris, but IBM is making a strong proposal to management
(meaning significantly less cost), and we are wondering what would need to
be
changed. We use korn shell scripts extensively, and features such as
crontab, background processing, the sqlplus <<EOF ... EOF construct (not
sure what this is called). I'm fairly sure these are standard in most
flavors of unix, but I have never had contact with AIX. Does anyone know
what features differ between the two OS's?
If we went with Solaris, we would go with Solaris 9 running Oracle 9.2 on a Sun 4800.
Thanks for any responders.
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