Re: Comparison with AIX/Solaris

From: tingl <tlam15_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 01:53:21 GMT
Message-ID: <liQi9.9012$8K4.78436@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com>

"Keith Clay" <gremyotwig_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:4d66f19d.0209200846.7d8a75a9_at_posting.google.com...
> Folks,
>
> We are trying to decide whether to stay with solaris or move to AIX
> for oracle 9i. The oracle DBA says that AIX allows more flexible
> kernel level management than solaris 8. We could move to solaris 9
> soon. Would AIX still predominate even with solaris 9?
>
> I know this may be more of a political than technical question. Any
> outside references/comparisons would definitely help.
>
> Thanks.

If you are already running on Solaris, I see little reason to move to AIX. IBM is shifting its focus to Linux. The future of AIX remains to be seen. I have discussed this with some folks in another newgroup before. They seemed to think IBM may eventually replace AIX with Linux.

AIX does have great menu-driven system management tools, but Solaris also has excellent features. Maybe you can be more specific about what features you are looking for. From my experience Oracle only requires a few kernel configuration changes.

Also be aware Oracle no longer support 32-bit version of latest 9i for AIX. You have to get 64-bit version. Received on Fri Sep 20 2002 - 20:53:21 CDT