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I don't know much about Digital Unix, but... When I've used AIX in the past, it's seemed very BSD-ish. Some of the ways which AIX handles things seemed 'foreign' for want of a better word. The printing system in particular took me a while to get a handle on. (Especially as there was a bug in the print system whereby if one printer stopped, all printers stopped, even though they showed as active.)<br>
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On the sendmail side of things, sendmail is sendmail is sendmail. Your customer's sendmail.cf should still be valid on AIX. I can't remember if sendmail is a standard app on AIX, so you may need to (or help the customer with) compile up sendmail.<br>
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My advice would be to try and persuade the customer to go for something like HP/UX, unless they've got a compelling reason to go for AIX.
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On the sendmail side of things, sendmail is sendmail is sendmail. Your customer's sendmail.cf should still be valid on AIX. I can't remember if sendmail is a standard app on AIX, so you may need to (or help the customer with) compile up sendmail.<br>
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My advice would be to try and persuade the customer to go for something like HP/UX, unless they've got a compelling reason to go for AIX.
Most of the software on aix is proprietary, they even have their own "IBM" flavor of sendmail. The free version of sendmail will compile and run on AIX eventually.<br>
AIX also has special needs when it comes to compiling c source code. <br>
Since it is an IBM product, service agreements might be a little more difficult.<br>
On the plus side AIX has a really cool Administration tool called SMIT, and excellent way of managing disk space, they use volume that can span multiple disk and appear to be all one file system.<br>
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For more comparisons I recommend the Armadillo Book from ORielly<br>
AIX also has special needs when it comes to compiling c source code. <br>
Since it is an IBM product, service agreements might be a little more difficult.<br>
On the plus side AIX has a really cool Administration tool called SMIT, and excellent way of managing disk space, they use volume that can span multiple disk and appear to be all one file system.<br>
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For more comparisons I recommend the Armadillo Book from ORielly<br>
Several of the Linux distributions also have GREAT ways of organizing separate disks into on, organized, transparent (or nearly-transparent) system......they _all_ come with sendmail & are *very* compatible with Unix programs.<br>
I am currently trying out Caldera2.2 & it's easy of use & it's GUI can be made to be _very_ comparable to the Win32 interfaces & it comes with Star Office 5, Corel Word Perfect *, TeTex, LaTex, Xfree86, KDE, and MANY other, POWERFUL apps right on the install CD (a whole 1024 megs worth if you can fit them on your HDD)<br>
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-Robherc
I am currently trying out Caldera2.2 & it's easy of use & it's GUI can be made to be _very_ comparable to the Win32 interfaces & it comes with Star Office 5, Corel Word Perfect *, TeTex, LaTex, Xfree86, KDE, and MANY other, POWERFUL apps right on the install CD (a whole 1024 megs worth if you can fit them on your HDD)<br>
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