Server hardware: IBM p520, or ??

[Matthew Carpenter]

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Michael Hipp wrote:

> Tim Wunder wrote:
>
>> I've got to make a couple of important decisions: Should I have
>> AIX-5L installed on the machine, or use linux? If I use linux,
>> IBM offers pre-loading Suse ELS9, and RedHat ELAS 3. I'm leaning
>> towards Suse, even though I'm a home Fedora user...
>>
>> There is also the option of buying it without an O/S, and I could
>> load CentOS (or such) on it, I s'pose. But they're not charging
>> anything for Suse.
>>
>> Should I look at an x86-64 based server? What x86-64 based server
>> would be comparable to the IBM p520?
>
>
> If they're tossing a big-iron version of SUSE in for free and
> loading it also, that's hard to pass up. I can't think of any
> reason to want AIX on it, assuming your application works equally
> well with either. I believe AIX to be a dying O/S.

Also noteable is the different versions they are offering.  SLES9 is
much newer than RHELAS3.  Not a bash on either, just noteable that
their release schedules place RHEL3 something like 8-10 months earlier
than SLES9.
That coupled with the other good points mentioned by list members.
Sounds like a good decision to me.
I only *wish* our teams would take a Linux build instead of AIX.  AIX
seems like a piece of smit.  ;)

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