08-19-2009, 07:15 PM
Vanraw Wrote:From a large enterprise perspective we put very little on windows. I have a ton of AIX, but we have shied away from IBM as well. SUN and Intel based Linux is where all our work is going. But I work in a "real" Real-time space. Telephone call processing. Windows just doesn't scale in our space.
I work in online cash management. Our system has to handle thousands of users with massive volumes of real-time transactions. We recently went to the IBM lab to have our system officially stress tested. While the numbers on their AIX platforms were nice we have customers running on load balanced Windows environments with about half the investment in hardware around the same levels.
One to one AIX will beat Windows the thing is you can buy 3 Windows servers for the price of a single AIX box and AIX doesn't out perform Windows 3 to 1. It's all about cost. We also load balance at all three tiers, presentment, application and database so the more machines the better for us. I will say that most of our databases are Oracle running on something other than Windows.
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Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
-Thomas Jefferson
Spread my work ethic not my wealth.