Linked by David Adams on Wed 16th Apr 2008 15:35 UTC, submitted by R_T_F_M
Yankee Group's second annual Server Operating System Reliability survey polled 700 users from 27 countries worldwide. The latest independent, non-sponsored Web-based survey revealed that all versions of UNIX -- which typically carry very high workloads -- are near bulletproof, achieving 99.999% reliability. IBM's AIX UNIX led all server operating systems for reliability with just over 30 minutes of per server annual downtime but Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems also got high scores.
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I would also like to see some hardware statistics. How does downtime with Solaris compare on x86 vs SPARC? What were the most typical causes of downtime from the sample of operating systems?