IBM's UNIX Operating System Rated Number One in Study; D.H. Brown report says AIX is Superior to Sun Solaris.Business & Technology Editors SOMERS, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 24, 2000 IBM's UNIX operating system Noun 1. UNIX operating system - trademark for a powerful operating system UNIX, UNIX system operating system, OS - (computer science) software that controls the execution of computer programs and may provide various services , AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. , outpaced competing operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. from Sun, Compaq and Hewlett-Packard, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a new independent consultant review released today. The report, published by D.H. Brown Associates, Inc., specifically cites AIX's superiority over Sun's Solaris operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. in the crucial area of Internet and Web application functionality. According to the study, AIX Version 4.3.3, introduced last September by IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , has the industry's best set of Internet features with top-rated file, mail and Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. , in addition to possessing superb e-commerce options. AIX's potency in Internet and Web application services See ASP and Web services. is in stark contrast to Sun's Solaris operating system which placed fourth overall in the study. Solaris's limited e-commerce options, along with a lack of many TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. extensions considered key to Internet functionality were cited as reasons for the rating. "AIX 4.3.3 from IBM outperforms other UNIX operating systems due in large part to its unmatched Internet and Web application features," said Tony Iams, senior analyst in D.H. Brown's Systems Software research program. "It is clear that IBM's investment in AIX has yielded big dividends in the vital area of Internet functionality." "IBM's commitment to making AIX the industry's best UNIX operating system is reflected in this year's DH Brown report," said Rod Adkins, general manager, IBM Web Server Unit. "AIX offers users the most robust, scalable and reliable UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). platform for critical e-commerce and Internet applications." The exceptional Web serving abilities of AIX 4.3.3 were demonstrated last September on the SPECweb96 performance benchmark, when an IBM RS/6000 S80, running AIX 4.3.3, shot past Sun, HP and others to become the world's fastest Web server. The addition to AIX 4.3.3 of IBM's HTTP HTTP in full HyperText Transfer Protocol Standard application-level protocol used for exchanging files on the World Wide Web. HTTP runs on top of the TCP/IP protocol. Get Engine, which serves Web pages from in-kernel Web cache (1) A computer system in a network that keeps copies of the most-recently requested Web pages in memory or on disk in order to speed up retrieval. If the next page requested has already been stored in the cache, it is retrieved locally rather than from the Internet. while staying in kernel mode, vastly improved the performance of Web pages served by the RS/6000. In addition to superior Internet and Web functionality, D.H. Brown reports that AIX has the best system and hardware management, supporting plug-and-play configuration of RS/6000 hardware and peripherals. The study also highlights AIX's excellent performance clustering capabilities and strong remote manageability based on its Web-based System Manager IBM Web-based System Manager (WSM) is a management software (GUI) for administering AIX 5L host on RS/6000 systems, it can be run in standalone mode or in a client-server environment. Introduced in AIX 4.3 and installed by default in AIX 5. . The first place finish in today's DH Brown Report is just the latest in an impressive list of accomplishments compiled by AIX 4.3.3 since last September: 1/7/2000 -- IBM announces a six-way RS/6000 S80 server running AIX 4.3.3 set new records for Java performance This article is a general presentation of the Java Platform performance. For criticisms about Java performance, and more generally about the Java language, see Criticism of Java. and scalability, surpassing the previous record holder, a Sun E6500 server containing more than three times the processors. 1/5/2000 -- IBM and America Online See AOL. Inc. announce that the Sun-Netscape Alliance will significantly expand the number of iPlanet Internet infrastructure and e-commerce application products that are ported to the IBM AIX UNIX platform. 12/22/99 -- A download of IBM AIX Developer Kit, Java 2 Technology Edition, Version 1.2.2 for AIX Version 4.3.3 is made generally available at no additional cost from the IBM Java Developer Kit download site at: http://www.ibm.com/java/jdk/download/index.html. With this release, customers can create and run Java applications using Java version 1.2 application programming interfaces. 12/20/99 -- IBM and Bull announce an extension of their agreement to continue to work together on IBM POWER processor-based UNIX systems and AIX. The companies will continue work on AIX applications including workload management, Web-based systems management and reliability and availability features to maximize applications uptime. 9/29/99 -- IBM announces SecureWay Firewall Version 4.1 for AIX, designed to strengthen e-mail security for Internet multimedia applications. 9/13/99 -- IBM introduces AIX 4.3.3 which includes new features, such as Quality of Service administration, to help administrators manage network bandwidth under policy-based control and Workload Manager, which helps system administrators apply resource management policies to different workloads to help manage peak system demands. IBM also announced plans to deliver a Linux application execution environment, designed to allow most application binaries to run on RS/6000 servers with AIX 4.3.3. The Linux application execution environment will provide Linux application programming interfaces so that Linux applications also can be recompiled to run natively on AIX. 9/13/99 -- IBM unveils new applications to the AIX Bonus Pack, available at no additional charge. The Bonus Pack Edition 9909 includes: Chili!Soft ASP V3.9 Five User Developer's Edition, a Web application server, designed to support server consolidation; and SCO (The SCO Group, Lindon, UT, www.sco.com) A leading vendor of Unix operating systems for the x86 platform. SCO had also offered Linux, but abandoned the line in the spring of 2003. The SCO Group is the combination of two companies: Utah-based Caldera, Inc. Tarantella tarantella (târ`əntĕl`ə), Neapolitan folk dance that first appeared in Taranto, Italy, in the 17th cent. It had rapid 6–8 meter with an increasing tempo and was thought to cure the bite of the tarantula, which supposedly V1.4 Two User Evaluation Software, a tool that "Web-enables" applications so they can be published on the Web without rewriting them. DB2 Universal Database V6.1 also is enhanced to support e-commerce applications. AIX supports both 32- and 64-bit IBM RS/6000 systems, from workstations, to Web servers, to many of the world's most powerful computers. It is also the operating system run by IBM's Shark Enterprise Storage Server, the fastest disk system available. AIX/Monterey is a major UNIX operating system initiative led by IBM, along with SCO and Intel, and accepted by leading OEMs including Bull and Samsung Electronics. The version of AIX, AIX/Monterey is a volume, enterprise-class UNIX product that runs across Intel IA-32 and IA-64 processors and IBM POWER processors that range from departmental to large data center servers. This volume UNIX operating system is being developed for Intel's IA-64 microprocessors using technologies from IBM's AIX, DYNIX/ptx and SCO UnixWare. IBM is continuing to work with major OEMs and ISVs to help make AIX/Monterey the industry-leading UNIX by delivering a single operating system product line that will run on systems based on IBM POWER and Intel architectures. Lawson Software is the latest software provider to announce its plans to port its software applications to the AIX/Monterey operating system. About D.H. Brown D.H. Brown Associates, Inc. (DHBA DHBA D.H. Brown Associates, Inc. DHBA Deregister Hba ) is a leading research and consulting firm concentrating on the strategic analysis, assessment and evaluations of technologies, products and market trends in the "Information Industry." DHBA concentrates on thoroughly understanding and continuously updating its knowledge of the core technologies and trends underlying current and future products. About IBM RS/6000 More than 1,000,000 IBM RS/6000 systems have been shipped to over 150,000 commercial and technical customers around the world. The RS/6000 family of computers feature IBM RISC-based microprocessors and run AIX, IBM's UNIX operating system. RS/6000 delivers the industry's most complete UNIX offerings by combining applications with hardware, software, service and support -- a combination that yields new levels of high availability, scalability, system management, performance, and Deep Computing capabilities. AIX and RS/6000 are registered trademarks or trademarks of the IBM corporation in the United States, other countries, or both. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. Other company, product and service names, which may be denoted by a double asterisk may be trademarks or service marks of others. |
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