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Are you running Sametime on AIX?

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Who is it that's running Sametime on AIX?  I maybe get asked about it once every 6 month.   I'd have to think that maybe 5% of Sametime customers are running AIX tops, from what I can tell it primarily appears to be companies who have IBM to manage their IT infrastructure.  are you running Sametime on AIX?  Why did you select AIX as your OS?  I'm interested to know why someone would choose AIX over say Linux or Windows.

Posted by Carl Tyler On 12/08/2008 | | del.icio.us  Technorati  Digg This 

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Gravatar Image1 - Because I have an AIX box and well, why not. That's my reason and I am sticking to it.
I don't have any clients who do though.

Posted by Keith Brooks At 07:58:26 PM On 12/08/2008 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image2 - Sametime on pSeries was chosen at this customer due to Domino being on deployed on pSeries. pSeries was chosen due to zSeries being more than could be handled by the customer on Domino internally (even though they had zSeries skills onsite for their critical apps) and local iSeries administrators were too expensive. SUN lost based on costs on a head-to-head tender.

(if you remember you and I had a conference call with IBM when I was working for this specific customer regarding some additional Sametime functionality they needed etc)

I really like pSeries and would deploy Domino/Sametime on the platform again. I may however run Sametime on Linux on pSeries. Windows is good however since I had the hardware . . . . .

My current site is Sametime for 24k users on 2 8-way Windows 2003 boxes and they have not missed a beat so scalability is no problem.

Posted by Simon Bounds At 05:15:25 AM On 12/09/2008 | - Website - |


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