19 Jan
2010
19 Jan
'10
5:23 a.m.
On Monday 18 January 2010, Dave McGuire wrote:
On Jan 18, 2010, at 4:18 PM, Doc Shipley wrote:
AIX Isn't uniX. Really, AIX is a legacy OS. IBM doesn't seem to be
really putting any significant resources into advancing it. Oh, and
there's a reason that IBM is putting so much effort into making Linux
run on their hardware as well. Like it or not, Linux on POWER is one of
the best ways that IBM can make POWER systems competitive with a higher-
end x86 box running Linux that are taking over everywhere. (Though the
hardware price is still a few times too high it seems..) Thanks to IBM,
there's support for things like hotplug CPU and memory that will make it
succeed in high-end markets.
The one biggest thing that Solaris 10 has going for it is that it's so
much more like Linux than earlier versions of Solaris were, and has less
legacy UNIX baggage holding it back. ZFS is nice, but not unique to
Solaris 10 anymore (though isn't available on Linux due to Sun's asinine
licensing), and Domains... well, there's a number of ways to do that on
Linux.
Pat
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As far as hardware goes, Fujitsu just might
save SPARC, but if
they do it will be in spite of Sun & Oracle. As stands today, in
terms of raw processing power, scalability, power/thermal
management, and sane OS development, SPARC is 10 years behind POWER
with no clear means of closing the gap.
I'd give you TWO years, not ten. The problem is that AIX is twice
that many years behind Solaris in terms of manageability and lack-of-
cruftiness, with no reasonable OS alternatives for the godlike
hardware.