On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:10 AM, usafverteran <us...@yahoo.com> wrote: > That is nonsense and just tabloid talk. > > IBM just recently announced AIX 7 for their POWER 7 server line. Linux > cannot in any way use the full capabilities of POWER architecture the way it > is exploited with AIX. If IBM was to eliminate AIX, they would have to also > kill their POWER architecture, which isn't going to happen. > > Their POWER servers have a good margin and they make money from them. There > are also very large companies that run AIX and have no intention to turn over > their AIX-powered servers to Linux on cheap x86 hardware. > > Linux doesn't have anywhere near the features that AIX can boast about. RHEL > clustering is a joke at best, and Xen virtualization clustering on RHEL is > about as pathetic as one can get. There isn't any way I would entrust my > company to RHEL for mission critical workloads. Absolutely not. > > There is a complete fabrication that Linux is cheaper than AIX or Solaris. > Well, if I want to setup an infrastructure to patch, install, and maintain > servers, it won't cost me any money to use NIM or JumpStart. However, to get > those features with Red Hat Satellite server, you will pay hundreds per > machine. So if you have 1000 servers you need to provision with RHEL, then > you just spent $600,000 - $700,000. When they come out with KVM in RHEL 6, > if you want to manage them it will cost you a few hundred more per virtual. > EVERY time one turns around, Red Hat is charging for some "feature" that is > free with AIX.
The analog to Jumpstart is Kickstart. Kickstart is free. On x86 hardware, a typical network-based installation consists of PXE (DHCP + TFTP) + HTTP, FTP, and/or NFS. There are options for doing it purely from a CD/DVD and other non-network media. It is free and has been part of the OS for over a decade. This is starting to sound rather like Jumpstart, isn't it? >From 2000: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-6-Manual/ref-guide/ >From 2010: http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6-Beta/html/Installation_Guide/ch-kickstart2.html The up2date and/or similar commands have been around for a long time to automatically patch (upgrade RPMs). Sun's free options have varied over time and from my experience have been more of a PITA than up2date. I still prefer Solaris. I'm just calling BS on this argument. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
