Re: HP vs SUN for a UNIX box

• Mogens Nørgaard <mln_at_miracleas.dk>

> Funny. IBM is currently winning the Unix processor war, I think, with new
> designs that HP, Compaq, HP and others will not catch up with for a
> couple of years. But a Pentium 4 often outruns a couple of Unix
> processors, and that's pretty scary to an old VMS fan. So running Linux
> on Pentium 4's or on IBM sounds cool to me :).

Main problem I've had with AIX is that nothing quite works the way you'd expect -- even if you've had the training and read the doc's. The guts of AIX are still a batch environment, all they really did was put a stock *NIX library on top of the existing kernel they had. It also gets quirky due to attempting support for both BSD and SVR4 interface standards. Their equipment is rock solid, but running AIX can be a real pain.

Which is not to say that HP and Sun don't have their fair share of oddities...

At this point IBM is hocking linux heavily enough that it might well be worth looking into a supported copy of IBM's distro -- or SGI's.

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