Re: AIX vs Solaris

I did a short comparison between Sun and AIX a couple years ago. Nothing real in depth, I was comparing their respective computing power based on published information.

Yes, I know benchmarks aren't always trustworthy, but that's what I had to work with. TPC and SpecInt as I recall.

Anyway, IBM RS/6000 boxes had about 2.5x the computing power of a comparable Sun machine, at about half the cost.

And at that time, DH Brown was still recommending AIX as the most robust, secure and reliable unix available, a spot which Sun claimed only last year, or maybe it was this year.

Personally, I prefer Solaris, as many of the programmer/power user utilities that I'm used to there are not on AIX, at least not out of the box.

Truss for example is missing. If you want it's equivalent, you must pay for it, and it's not as easy to use.

Jared

On Wednesday 13 November 2002 10:48, becker.bill_at_marshfieldclinic.org wrote:
> 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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