[geeks] Daily Dose of Unix

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Kurt Huhn wrote:

> > AIX is probably the best for large scale database work, but that may
> > just be because of DB2. I personally thin AIX + DB2 is the best of the
> > major commercial DB platforms out there now.
>
> I'm not convinced of that.  SGI has some seriously rocking database installs
> using Origin systems - that's what they're used for really.  The Onyx
> systems are desinged for visualization, while Origins are huge honking data
> movers.
>
> Now I sound like a SGI weenie.

I wouldn't use either AIX nor IRIX for a large-scale database.  I would
use z/OS on a z900 Parallel Sysplex.

Peace...  Sridhar