Star Sun Ravaged, IBM Lauded in Unix Server Study
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 15th Dec 2005 19:29 UTC
General Unix A new study on the major players in the Unix server market has declared IBM the clear customer favorite and brought to light some serious issues with Sun Microsystems' product line. Most alarmingly for Sun, the company appears to have lost its cachet as the dominant Unix player and done so while alienating customers. Sun finished last in almost every one of the Gabriel Consulting Group survey's categories, spanning technology performance, customer satisfaction and software tools.
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aix? what is that?
by on Thu 15th Dec 2005 23:43 UTC

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While IBM does shows strong promise with their focus on Linux, Eclipse and Power Processor line, there is just no way that study could be given any credibility. I work in New York as a Systems Administrator and I DON'T hear people ON THE SUBWAY talking about AIX. They are talking about Sun Microsystems, about Solaris, and about Sun servers. [this happened indeed yesterday]. I just have not heard that much about cool technology from IBM, period, even here on osnews. When asked about reliability and strong OS design I think of Solaris. [And sometimes FreeBSD.] ;-D
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RE: aix? what is that?
by on Fri 16th Dec 2005 01:14 in reply to "aix? what is that?"
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You don't hear much about z/OS on OSNews either. That dosen't mean that people aren't using it.

AIX 5L is doing things that Sun can only dream about doing half as good. The only reason you don't hear about it is because IBM dosen't waste millions of dollars marketing something everyone wants to buy anyway.

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RE[2]: aix? what is that?
by Simba on Fri 16th Dec 2005 02:02 in reply to "RE: aix? what is that?"
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2005-10-08

"AIX 5L is doing things that Sun can only dream about doing half as good."

Uh huh... Sure... One word for you: dtrace. Actually, make that two. dtrace, and zfs.

Let me know when AIX has anything as remotely powerful as dtrace and then you can try to convince me that Sun can only dream about doing have as good. dtrace is best inovation in performance tuning and debugging to come along in a very long time.

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