Hi all,
I've got an interesting situation here with management considering altering
our hardware and operating system base and asking me for opinions on other
flavours of unix and the hardware platforms they run on.
My first instinct is to cry 'Tru64 is better than anything else' but without
experience actual in other operating systems I cant state this equivocally.
If those of you out there running multiplatform sites would send me
reasons/experiences/comments with other platforms running similar setups and
products to the ones i've described below i'd be grateful. Positive and
negative are welcome (and required). Contrasts with the Tru64 equivalent
would be fantastic. If something else is truely better in an area or overall
I need to know that as well.
Especially interested in:
Clustering (ease, robustness, setup, hardware limitations etc)
Hardware management including printers, basic disks, terminals
" " " " " " " " including raid
Oracle
DB2 (of great interest)
Installation of OS, subsets, patches, products.
General maturity, robustness, configurability.
System Management tools (i'm a command line admin, but others will use the
graphical tools no doubt - so info on both would be great)
Ease of integration with other branded hardware.
On: HP-UX, AIX, Solaris
Phew!
I know there will be a million opinions on this, and I want them all.
We are a financials based institution and immediate transaction processing
along with large overnight reconciliation type runs form the bulk of our
systems workload.
Thanks in anticipation,
Danielle
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| Danielle Georgette | Unix is very user friendly, its |
| Unix Admin | just rather particular about |
| danielle.georgette_at_asx.com.au | who it makes friends with. |
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| All opinions are my own unless clearly stated otherwise. |
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Received on Wed Mar 01 2000 - 01:21:40 NZDT