Re: p and i systems reliability

Pete Helgren wrote:

Thanks Hans,

Yep, it *could*. I was thinking more in terms of someone who has an i
and is being told that they need to switch to a "more modern" platform
like Wintel. I wonder about business applications available in AIX? I
know web serving and DB serving are strong application areas but when I
scan my memory for an advertisement touting a business application on
AIX I come up dry. I am *sure* they exist (just Google for them) but in
terms of mind share for business applications, it is predominately
Windows I think.

I guess I'd rather see someone go from i to p than from i to Intel.

IMHO.

Pete

Actually, I'd like to see the raw numbers. The articles don't go into
specific details. For example, we know that Windows Server boxes
improved, but we don't see numbers we can objectively compare across the
systems.

Furthermore, when we see numbers like 0.34 Tier 2 incidents for
AIX/Power systems versus 0.44 for iSeries, how do these numbers compare
statistically? That is, what's the margin of error? What's the sample
size? etc. Did the author of the study do a proper statistical analysis
of the numbers?

Cheers! Hans