UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

hi everybody,

what mission critical workloads and applications functions can run on the UNIX operating system?

best regards

This question is strange....Most of the critical software is designed for Unix, what exactly do you searching for ?

i am not really searching for anything. i am working in the IT department of a company and today we got a call from a marketresearch company. my collegue did the interview with special interest on unix but he didn't know an answer on this question. we are thinking about this one f*** question the whole day but don't know an answer until now. so i thought maybe here someone could tell us

the original question:

And what mission critical workloads and applications functions are running on the UNIX operating system?

The answer would be particular to your operation.

The answer here would be:
all A/R, CIS, and fileserver/network server. Desktops are all PC's with Windows XP.

I think you are reading more into the questions than needs to be. They want all apps that MUST run 24/7 for production to be successful. All of the above are setup to failover, we cannot have downtime.

That's a goofy question at best. You guys really spend time thinking about it? My knee jerk answer is "all mission critical workloads and applications functions" but I would need to add, "provided that they are not genuine real time applications". Unix, at its heart, is a time sharing OS, not a real time OS. I would not use it for real-time aps no matter how many real-time features people stick on.

Example of real-time ap: on the space shuttle, computers adjust the control surfaces many times per second. Adjust them too slowly and the shuttle will stall.

This also applies to spacecraft in general (ie sats) I know that the ESA uses vxworks for some suff and we use OSE for some of our realtime telecoms stuff.