Apple Releases New 'Server' Configuration of Mac Pro to Replace Xserve

[KnightWRX]

support that's better than RTFM

IBM World Services supports both AIX and Linux. Better than RTFM.

and AIX probably works on IBM's POwerPC servers

So does Linux.

 

[jnpy!$4g3cwk]

So because Linux can do it, everyone should use just Linux ? Let's turn the question around, what does Linux have that AIX doesn't ?

Codebase portability with the Linux parts of the data center described. Which also happens to be the cheap and portable part. So, given that a lot of the functionality fits on the cheap and more easily portable part, I assume that Apple needed something that runs only on the more BSD-ish AIX. I think that is a legitimate question.

 

[KnightWRX]

Codebase portability with the Linux parts of the data center described. Which also happens to be the cheap and portable part. So, given that a lot of the functionality fits on the cheap and more easily portable part, I assume that Apple needed something that runs only on the more BSD-ish AIX. I think that is a legitimate question.

Uh ? Nothing in that paragraph even makes sense. AIX is SysV based, not BSD based at all (in fact, none of the big Iron Unices that survive to this day are BSD based, Sun having moved to a SysV base at version 5.0 of SunOS, what is known as Solaris).

Codebase portability with the Linux parts ? Define what you mean.

 

[jnpy!$4g3cwk]

support that's better than RTFM. i don't use it, but from the day to day stuff i read linux is full of bugs and even features like the file system aren't as rock solid as with Solaris

Database stuff would be a good guess, but, Oracle runs on Linux, too. And, since the description implies Sun/Solaris for database, I assume that AIX is there for some other reason.

and AIX probably works on IBM's POwerPC servers

IBM supports both.

 

[alent1234]

we use solaris a bit where i work and i talked to the reseller we deal with about it last year. they have some big enterprise solaris accounts. the sales guy said there are about zero big Oracle installations on Linux that are considered critical.

 

[KnightWRX]

we use solaris a bit where i work and i talked to the reseller we deal with about it last year. they have some big enterprise solaris accounts. the sales guy said there are about zero big Oracle installations on Linux that are considered critical.

We have some. Though I might not use big to define them, they're mostly large critical installations (many medium size databases running on one Linux 4 node cluster).

 

[jnpy!$4g3cwk]

Uh ? Nothing in that paragraph even makes sense.

Thanks!

AIX is SysV based, not BSD based at all (in fact, none of the big Iron Unices that survive to this day are BSD based, Sun having moved to a SysV base at version 5.0 of SunOS, what is known as Solaris).

Yes, I was there at the time SunOS was killed in favor of Solaris

The last time I admin-ed AIX, it was BSD-based. I guess it has been a while

Codebase portability with the Linux parts ? Define what you mean.

Meaning if I have a big blob of code, scripts, files, etc., uh, I mean an "application", it is a lot easier to port it to Linux running on HP, SGI, IBM, ... than to AIX. Unless, it is already on AIX and you have to port it in the other direction.

 

[KnightWRX]

Meaning if I have a big blob of code, scripts, files, etc., uh, I mean an "application", it is a lot easier to port it to Linux running on HP, SGI, IBM, ... than to AIX. Unless, it is already on AIX and you have to port it in the other direction.

If you have Unix based application, it's easier to port to AIX, Solaris, HP-UX or OS X as they are all Unix '03 certified and thus guaranteed to have the required APIs and compatibility layers.

Linux, not so much.

 

[alent1234]

We have some. Though I might not use big to define them, they're mostly large critical installations (many medium size databases running on one Linux 4 node cluster).

via linkedin i found out that Time Warner Cable uses Solaris, probably to run their service