IBM AIX vs. IBM LinuxONE

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM AIX
Score 9.3 out of 10
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IBM AIX (for Advanced Interactive eXecutive) is a Unix operating system, developed, offered and supported by IBM.N/A
IBM LinuxONE
Score 9.0 out of 10
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IBM LinuxONE is the company's high performance scalable mainframe servers, available in the Rockhopper and Emperor editions.N/A
Pricing
IBM AIXIBM LinuxONE
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM AIXIBM LinuxONE
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsIndividual pricing on request
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Best Alternatives
IBM AIXIBM LinuxONE
Small Businesses
Ubuntu
Ubuntu
Score 8.7 out of 10
Dell PowerEdge
Dell PowerEdge
Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Score 9.3 out of 10
HPE ProLiant DL
HPE ProLiant DL
Score 5.9 out of 10
Enterprises
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Score 9.3 out of 10
IBM Z
IBM Z
Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
IBM AIXIBM LinuxONE
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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8.5
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Usability
8.0
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Support Rating
7.5
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User Testimonials
IBM AIXIBM LinuxONE
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM AIX is a very powerful and extremely stable operating environment. It is well suited for applications that are business critical and cannot tolerate outages. It is best used to address large enterprise level application needs where stability and scalability are of paramount importance. IBM AIX is less useful for small enterprises.
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IBM LinuxONE dashboard is clean and friendly to welcome new users and the capabilities of the feature are excellent and easy to pull multiple data from other third parties platforms through the IBM LinuxONE integration functions and the data merging tools are very excellent. Multiple data processing operations are easily managed and monitored through this software and the reports are effective.
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Pros
  • IBM AIX is a very stable server product, and I can't recall a time when the server has crashed due to a hardware fault.
  • If you have legacy software that can't run on the new-fangled Linux flavors, AIX might be the way to go.
  • AIX has a host of built-in management tools that makes system configuration easy for a novice.
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  • Great security, if you configure things correctly
  • Performance per instance is above average if you compare to commodity x86
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Cons
  • While there are options to install some standard Linux tools like Bash, they are not always easy to procure
  • Allowing easier flexibility in how some tools and CLI options work would make it easier for admins to float between operating systems.
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  • Deploying of the IBM LinuxONE is not easy to new users.
  • Powerful machine is required.
  • To generate quality services requires an experienced user.
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Usability
AIX is robust, helps the systems administrator, is built to prevent easily made mistakes. If you are used to other variants of Unix (in particularly Linux) there is no steep learning curve to get started with AIX. You need to learn the intricacies of the operating system, but that is true for any new operating system. AIX has built-in tools for almost anything you want and has the AIX Toolbox (on the web) for tools that are not included with AIX by default, but can be installed. Installation of AIX is modular, you can select with components and features you want to have installed. Installation of additional components (and usually also removal of installed components) is easy and straight-forward.
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Support Rating
There is lots of documentation out there for AIX. On the times I've had to address a hardware issue, IBM's support has been great.
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Alternatives Considered
Compared to other Unix-like operating systems, IBM AIX is the one with a solid roadmap into the future and is likely to stay around for a long time (it is over 30 years old and still being updated with new features and components all the time). Compared to many Linux variants, the AIX operating system is more robust, easier to manage and well-supported by its vendor.
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The backing of IBM and its customer staff and expertise was very distinct vs competitors
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Return on Investment
  • IBM AIX is more expensive but its worth to have it for the features its embedded with
  • It's not suited for small customers because of the hardware cost as the ROI will be less for smaller customers.
  • IBM AIX is well suited for companies who has more customers so that ROI doesn't impact.
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  • No downtime since we deployed IBM LinuxONE
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