You (Edward Martinez) wrote:
> > IBM has released AIX 6.1 with three different price
> > levels: express edition, standard edition, and
> > enterprise edition. The express edition costs $300
> > per core.
> >
> > Three hundred per core with the features available,
> > GLVM, KSPK, Kernel Recovery, etc.; it is more
> > bang-for-the-buck than you would get with RHEL. Just
> > consider the fact with AIX you have NIM included at
> > no cost, allowing you to do at no cost what you pay
> > $300 per machine with RHEL to do with their Satellite
> > server.
> >
> > With Linux, I feel like I'm floating in a rubber raft
> > hoping it doesn't spring a leak and there aren't any
> > sharks. With AIX, I feel like I'm sailing in the
> > luxury of a 100-foot yacht, with the protection of a
> > US Navy cruiser.
>
> LOL, are you trying to recruit me as customer? I'm dedicated to (Open)
> Solaris and LInux on x86 platforms.
>
> So you are saying that AIX is built by professionals and it's better then
> Linux and linux is being built by amateurs? well,this reminds me of the quote:
>
> Professionals built the Titanic, amateurs the ark
>
> guess which one sank at it's time of critical?
And can I run AIX on my cheap x86 systenm at home? With all the glory
features, that you mentioned (you == bsd, not Ed)? Open/Solaris does run on
x86 and has also many features, that Linux misses, so my take here is: On par,
but better in HW support for Opne/Solaris... ;-)
Matthias
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