I'm not really sure where to ask this, but I noticed another AIX question in this forum, so here I am.

I was recently given an account on our AIX server at work. We're primarily a Novell shop, using AIX on an RS6000 exclusively for database work.

I'm curious as to what people think about AIX. Ever used it? Like it? Hate it? Does it have any particularly good qualities or particularly bad weaknesses?

Any opinions or feedback would be appreciated. I started out in *NIX world in the early 90s with Solaris, but have been using Linux exclusively for a while now and am completely new to AIX.

Thanks

AIX is mature is about the best way to sum it up. It's had an efficient and safe journaled filesystem for many years. I can increase the size of a filesystem on the fly while users are working without worry. It supports bootable OS restorable tape creation. It is POSIX compliant (for what it's worth). The hardware is workstation-class and is generally much more 'hardy' than typical PC hardware. IBM are the masters of proper airflow.

Don't know how they do it better but for multi-user apps AIX is more scalable than anything else I've ever seen. We use AIX, SCO, Linux, Windows and have dabbled with a few other OS'es in the past. Add more users to a box and AIX just continually decreases in performance gradually and does not seem to just up and die under extreme loads like a lot of other OSes will eventually do.

I could go on and on.. Suffice it to say that AIX is fast, stable, secure, and mature. I like it...