p and i systems reliability

I haven't seen this referenced here and I came across this while scanning the weekly SANS bulletin. I was a reference to an article from The Register: "IBM Power: good. Windows: not so much"

*http://tinyurl.com/lu76z5*

"Among the customers surveyed by ITIC, IBM's Power Systems running AIX experienced (this includes older System p and pSeries iron) the least amount of downtime per year, when averaged across all customers using these platforms. AIX shops reported an average of 0.42 Tier 1 incidents per year and 0.34 Tier 2 incidents, and not one customer reported a Tier 3 outage on their AIX boxes. The Power Systems machines (and this includes older System i and iSeries iron) had an average of 0.56 Tier 1 outages per year, 0.44 Tier 2 outages per year, and 0.12 Tier 3 outages. So in 2009 at least, the i platform fared a little worse than the AIX platform running on Power iron."

Pretty much a "duh" for us i folks but *just* in case some of you are fighting the "switch to Windows" battle, it might be some additional ammo for staying on the i.

Pete Helgren