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http://www-1.ibm.com/linux/competiti...sToLinux.shtml

Note written for IBM, and this is a comparison of Solaris 10 (arguably
the best Unix) v generic Linux. Interesting that IBM does not mention
its own AIX unix or HP's HP-UX, yet this paper could be applied to cover
these as well I think.

Things I got out of it were up to 8 way, Linux is better (in a broad
sense) this could probably apply to moving to MS as well, ie cheaper
hardware with Linux or win2k3 as a "good enough" OS. ie if you have a 64
or 128 way CPU "beast" Solaris is the choice, with 16~32 CPUs as the
break even but is overkill for below that (Note SGI's stuff).

Comments on Linux being the preferred OS for Database vendors, with
clustering to scale horizontally......

I still think Sun's support is the best, but boy do you pay for it.....

Anybody else noticed this? ie Dell, HP, IBM's support sucks in comparison?

regards

Thing

thingy wrote:
> http://www-1.ibm.com/linux/competiti...sToLinux.shtml
>
> Note written for IBM, and this is a comparison of Solaris 10 (arguably
> the best Unix) v generic Linux. Interesting that IBM does not mention
> its own AIX unix or HP's HP-UX, yet this paper could be applied to cover
> these as well I think.
>
> Things I got out of it were up to 8 way, Linux is better (in a broad
> sense) this could probably apply to moving to MS as well, ie cheaper
> hardware with Linux or win2k3 as a "good enough" OS. ie if you have a 64
> or 128 way CPU "beast" Solaris is the choice, with 16~32 CPUs as the
> break even but is overkill for below that (Note SGI's stuff).
>
> Comments on Linux being the preferred OS for Database vendors, with
> clustering to scale horizontally......
>
> I still think Sun's support is the best, but boy do you pay for it.....
>
> Anybody else noticed this? ie Dell, HP, IBM's support sucks in comparison?
>
That report is disappointing. A major cost of an OS is the
maintenance and administration. They should have put in a
large section about Solaris' system management tools (which
are much enhanved over Solaris 9, versus the Linux tools.
The Linux tools still win, but Sun has made a great leap
forward with Solaris 10.

Cheers,

Cliff

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Barzoomian the Martian - http://barzoomian.blogspot.com

Enkidu wrote:
> thingy wrote:
>
>> http://www-1.ibm.com/linux/competiti...sToLinux.shtml
>>
>> Note written for IBM, and this is a comparison of Solaris 10 (arguably
>> the best Unix) v generic Linux. Interesting that IBM does not mention
>> its own AIX unix or HP's HP-UX, yet this paper could be applied to
>> cover these as well I think.
>>
>> Things I got out of it were up to 8 way, Linux is better (in a broad
>> sense) this could probably apply to moving to MS as well, ie cheaper
>> hardware with Linux or win2k3 as a "good enough" OS. ie if you have a
>> 64 or 128 way CPU "beast" Solaris is the choice, with 16~32 CPUs as
>> the break even but is overkill for below that (Note SGI's stuff).
>>
>> Comments on Linux being the preferred OS for Database vendors, with
>> clustering to scale horizontally......
>>
>> I still think Sun's support is the best, but boy do you pay for it.....
>>
>> Anybody else noticed this? ie Dell, HP, IBM's support sucks in
>> comparison?
>>
> That report is disappointing. A major cost of an OS is the maintenance
> and administration. They should have put in a large section about
> Solaris' system management tools (which are much enhanved over Solaris
> 9, versus the Linux tools. The Linux tools still win, but Sun has made a
> great leap forward with Solaris 10.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Cliff
>


Might depend on which Linux tools. This stuff is a hardware & OS level
thing, someone reading this would have to collect more info to make a
decision.

regards

Thing

thing2 wrote:
> Enkidu wrote:
>
>> thingy wrote:
>>
>>> http://www-1.ibm.com/linux/competiti...sToLinux.shtml
>>>
>>> Note written for IBM, and this is a comparison of Solaris 10
>>> (arguably the best Unix) v generic Linux. Interesting that IBM does
>>> not mention its own AIX unix or HP's HP-UX, yet this paper could be
>>> applied to cover these as well I think.
>>>
>>> Things I got out of it were up to 8 way, Linux is better (in a broad
>>> sense) this could probably apply to moving to MS as well, ie cheaper
>>> hardware with Linux or win2k3 as a "good enough" OS. ie if you have a
>>> 64 or 128 way CPU "beast" Solaris is the choice, with 16~32 CPUs as
>>> the break even but is overkill for below that (Note SGI's stuff).
>>>
>>> Comments on Linux being the preferred OS for Database vendors, with
>>> clustering to scale horizontally......
>>>
>>> I still think Sun's support is the best, but boy do you pay for it.....
>>>
>>> Anybody else noticed this? ie Dell, HP, IBM's support sucks in
>>> comparison?
>>>
>> That report is disappointing. A major cost of an OS is the maintenance
>> and administration. They should have put in a large section about
>> Solaris' system management tools (which are much enhanved over Solaris
>> 9, versus the Linux tools. The Linux tools still win, but Sun has made
>> a great leap forward with Solaris 10.
>
> Might depend on which Linux tools. This stuff is a hardware & OS level
> thing, someone reading this would have to collect more info to make a
> decision.
>
Well yes, but the real strengths of Linux are in the support
and the packaging.

Cheers,

Cliff

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Barzoomian the Martian - http://barzoomian.blogspot.com