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IBM AIX is a very powerful and extremely stable operating environment. It is well suited for applications that are business critical and cannot tolerate outages. It is best used to address large enterprise level application needs where stability and scalability are of paramount importance. IBM AIX is less useful for small enterprises.Incentivized
Anyone with an iPhone or iPad would benefit from having a macOS-based computer. Additionally, the learning curve for a new user is much less steep than for a Windows computer. Apple has updated its OS for 20+ years, however, still maintains the same basic functionality (turn on/off, open/close apps, etc), the same cannot be said for Windows (Windows Vista, 8, 8.1, 11).Incentivized
The newer version of IBM AIX allows to apply new patches without system restartIBM AIX was the first operating system to have a journaling file system and have enhanced software features.IBM AIX will have good vendor support 24/7 and will ensure reliability to the customers and more performance when compared to it peers.
Integrates with other apple devices seamlesslyInformation passed between those devices is encrypted end to end (understanding that apple has the keys in some cases)Compact designAesthetically pleasingIncentivized
A lot of the built-in commands have not been updated in years. If you're used to some fancy CLI options in Linux, you may be out of luck with AIX.Out of the box, you cannot run open-source Linux utilities on AIX. There is a toolbox you can install, however, it's not the same versions as you would get in different Linux flavors.Tab completion for files and Up arrow to re-run previous commands don't work out of the box without running a Korn shell. A small annoyance, but one that catches me every time!Incentivized
Integration within a windows environment does require more work.Does not play well with PCL based network printers that do not also support PS.Dongles for everythingIncentivized
There is lots of documentation out there for AIX. On the times I've had to address a hardware issue, IBM's support has been great.Incentivized
Standard Linux distributions which are used more as commodity servers do not offer the ease of scale and growth that we see with our Aix implementations. IBM owning the HW and SW portions of the stack allows for tighter integrations and better performance windows.Incentivized
IBM AIX on Power hardware has been the backbone of our most critical applications.The versatility of IBM AIX virtualization has been extremely useful, scalable, and provided configuration with redundant dual VIO servers.IBM AIX is not Linux so special skill sets are needed to actually manage the systems. Finding qualified engineers can often be a challengeIncentivized
Apple supports their hardware longer than most manufacturers, which is good.Apple's hardware is more expensive than similar equipment competition, which is bad but offset somewhat by its longevity.Apple in an Apple world works great.Apple in a Windows world has some work to do to get things talking.Incentivized