IBM’s AIX Voted Best Operating System for Workstations
Beats Sun and HP
SOMERS, N.Y (July 09, 1998) – . IBM’s AIX operating system, which runs on RS/6000 workstations and servers, ranked number one in a new industry survey of UNIX and NT workstation operating systems.
In voting by the people who really know — value-added resellers who configure, install and support many different vendors’ systems — AIX finished first in seven out of eight categories. The resellers ranked IBM tops in the categories they said mattered most: Reliability, Ease of Configuration, Security, Technical Support, Management Capabilities, Ease of Installation (tied for first) , and Scalability (tied for first).
Overall AIX scored 58.8 followed by Hewlett Packard’s UX** operating system (55.2), Microsoft Windows NT** (54.6), SunSoft’s Solaris** (54.3), and SCO Unixware** (53.7).
“The results of this survey demonstrate that Business Partners recognize the value of AIX on RS/6000,” said Michael J. Borman, general manager, IBM RS/6000. “AIX’s reliability, easy-to-use browser-based tools, and e-business capabilities are a winning combination for enterprise computing.”
AIX is the first OS that supports a 64-bit operating environment to be branded UNIX 98. It’s also the only OS that supports a 64-bit operating environment to receive the ITSEC C2/E3 security certification, and the first server OS with Virtual Private Network certification from the International Computer Security Association.
Source: IBM