Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 26th Jul 2005 17:50 UTC
Sun Microsystems has distributed more than two million registered licenses for the Solaris 10 Operating System since the software became available on January 31st. These numbers, coupled with a record number of visitors to the Sun website during the last six months, highlight the incredible demand for the freely available operating system.
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2005-07-06
While this is probably true among the current crop of experienced admins, what compelling arguments are there for companies to stay with HP-UX and AIX moving forward? What compelling arguments are there for HP-UX and AIX on new installations? Outside of legacy systems support...what is there?
There's world class support, especially for big enterprises you cannot beat the way IBM etc will actually develop custom patches for you. (No we DON'T wan't a "custom patch" from somebody of the usenet)
Also for AIX (which I know the best) if you want dynamic partitioning or micro-partitioning you have to have AIX. AIX is also particularly good with high i/o throughput (network/disk) which is why it handles our san backup solution for example. I'm sure HPUX and Solaris have similar strengths in other area's.
Personally I see UNIX pushing out the mainframe on the high-end to provide high availability solutions and Linux pushing out MS on the low-end in the "one box, one server" category.