I have used HP-UX machines, SYS-V machines from AT&T, and (for the last 9 years) AIX machines as well as Linux and Tru64Unix on Alpha. ALL of them are excellent! Linux is the least mature from the standpoint of day to day administrations, but it is catching up fast.
AIX (since version 4 came out) is not only just fine for day to day administration, but also the EASIEST to plan DR for. No reinstallations, licenses, or horsing around, just recover your mksysb and savevg images and go. In my book that is enough ALONE to make it my favorite. My measure of maturity is how easy it is for the business to survive and recover when a tornado has trashed the server room, and the idiot sales VP is the man who has to handle the restore!
I must admit though, when debian gets that easy to admin and DR, I will have a new favorite.
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Posted by: wpeckham on July 23, 2004 11:20 PMAIX (since version 4 came out) is not only just fine for day to day administration, but also the EASIEST to plan DR for. No reinstallations, licenses, or horsing around, just recover your mksysb and savevg images and go. In my book that is enough ALONE to make it my favorite. My measure of maturity is how easy it is for the business to survive and recover when a tornado has trashed the server room, and the idiot sales VP is the man who has to handle the restore!
I must admit though, when debian gets that easy to admin and DR, I will have a new favorite.
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