Analysts, while generally conceding Windows NT will eventually give all flavours of Unix a run for their money across the enterprise, have backed IBM's AIX, Sun Solaris, HP-UX and Digital Unix (which is set for a name change) as the types which...
Linux may rise at the expense of NT in the file and print space but across servers it is proprietary Unix OS's such as AIX, HP-UX and Solaris that will suffer. A second study, albeit sponsored by Microsoft, carried out by researchers at IDC...
While Intel-based servers are generally less expensive than Unix-RISC-based servers, Gibbs asserted that the conversion is taking place because the performance gap between the two types of setups has largely been erased, and even reversed for...
HP and Intel argued that Itanium would bring a radical new design to last 20 years - far beyond the RISC (reduced instruction set computing) chips such as IBM's Power and Sun's UltraSparc. AIX is still superior but as years go by, that gap will...
DEC is gone, HP-UX is going away, PA-RISC is gone," he said, referring to Digital Equipment Corp. Sun also is spreading its Java Enterprise System software to Windows, IBM's AIX version of Unix, and Hewlett-Packard's HP-UX version of Unix.
The HP-UX version of JES is only for servers using HP's PA-RISC processor, which over a period of years is being replaced by Intel's Itanium. Sun also plans a version of JES for IBM's AIX version of Unix.