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#1 (**permalink**) 01-04-2008, 09:41 PM

Some people at my company are having a debate as to whether to upgrade
some of our servers to AIX 5.1/5.2 (they are all running 4.3.3 now). I
have my own opinion on upgrading and have a few stories of AIX
hardware support not even responding to unsupported OS server problems
but I'm looking for some more... any stories or opinions would be
appreciated!!!

Thanks

#2 (**permalink**) 01-04-2008, 09:41 PM

Shelby <shelby.graham@tsgweb.com> wrote:
S> Some people at my company are having a debate as to whether to upgrade
S> some of our servers to AIX 5.1/5.2 (they are all running 4.3.3 now). I
S> have my own opinion on upgrading and have a few stories of AIX
S> hardware support not even responding to unsupported OS server problems
S> but I'm looking for some more... any stories or opinions would be
S> appreciated!!!

You shouldn't even need to find stories like that.

Here's how support works. If you run into some nasty AIX 4.3.3 bug
that no one else has seen, and for which there's not a fix, IBM will
not build the fix for you on AIX 4.3.3. They'll put it in 5.x, if
it even applies there, and you'll have to upgrade to 5.x before you
get a fix at all.

Those are the stakes.

Regards,

Nicholas

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