Next best choice is - stay where you are ! Or make some long-waited 
upgrades for 20% of the budget - you will get more.
TSM stresses not the operating system itself (excluding TCP/IP stack) but 
the box. Thus the question is formulated bad and you will get bad answer.
Ask yourself correct:
We are on RS/6000 with N buses and M slots but TSM should not use more 
than half or third of them. We cannot afford IBM pSeries (not AIX) or Sun 
Fire (not Solrais) because of budget limitations. So why not to throw our 
money for an Intel-based box with 1/6xN buses and 1/5xM slots (Windows, 
Linux is still not having a TSM server) and *downgrade* the server there 
??? 
I will not do it but you have the right to try! Guess what my TSM server's 
processor is doing - crunching nuts for distributed.net. Count what *does* 
affect the performance and forget for a while about bells&whistles.

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant




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Hi, Experts,
We have TSM server installed on AIX 4.3.3 which is also the failover
server for 2 other production servers. All production clients are AIX.
We try to move TSM server to a dedicated one. We can get neither AIX nor
Sun because of budget constraint, I think. What would be the next best
choice? I was thinking of Linux. Thanks.

Regards,




Jin Bae Chi (Gus)
Data Center
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>>> jbassi AT IHWY DOT COM 07/03/02 01:49PM >>>
If you have AIX installed already, I would hands-down recommend TSM on
AIX.



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