From: Sean McGrath (sean at domain hdl.ie)
Date: Fri 28 May 1999 - 11:52:46 IST
jplooney at domain compapp.dcu.ie wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 05:57:20AM -0400, Twomey_Mark at domain emc.com mentioned:
> > How is AIX doing as a commercial version of Unix?
> > I remember reading in Byte about a year ago that AIX had fallen behind
> > SOLARIS and DEC Unix.
>
> It's a different market. If you buy an SP2, running AIX, and want a
> contract on that machine till 2036, that's no problem. Say that to Sun or
> Digital, and they'll laugh at you.
>
try getting ibm to keep the contract going till after 2036 and they
be laughing too.
the rs6000's are very nice machines, other than the non-standard way
they have of
doing things.. Other thing is that IBM charge a lot for support,
more than say HP.
And they've now outsourced it. C&W are the support/resellers here in
Ireland.
> Kate
>
Sean.
.
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