Production (aka website, aka run-time) on AIX / Websphere: Possible? Roadmap?

I was surprised to find that Livesite requires Solaris (or Win) as OS for the production/webserver server.

Seeing how it's mostly an OpenDeploy receiver + J2EE LiveSite app on that server, I figured that AIX would also be supported, but alas... That's a problem for us, as all our Websphere runs on AIX. (a matter of in-house standardization)

Anyone know if AIX support (not for the Teamsite/LiveSite server, but for the web-production server) is in the pipeline... Or whether AIX can be used already with some less-supported hack?

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wscott

LiveSite doesn't have any special dependancy on Solaris or any other UNIX OS. Most of LiveSite is platform-independant Java, along with a few shell scripts during the install, so it should work on AIX. However, it is not tested or supported on AIX so if you run into unexpected issues they may take a bit more effort to debug than a Solaris installation.

Frederik

if it really is only a matter of JAR files + installation scripts,

then
- it would seem that support for AIX is a (technically) no-brainer; and
- I don't get why Interwoven doesn't support AIX for the LS runtime. Politics?

wscott

It requires substantial testing effort to certify each platform. Our QA department would need to run the full set of regression tests against AIX, which would take a while. And even though the shell scripts and Java code might be the same on all UNIX platforms, the platforms themselves all have weird little quirks that sometimes cause issues -- which is why we can't legitimately certify a platform without running that full regression.

So far, there hasn't been as much customer $$ tied to AIX support as there has been for Windows and Solaris, which is why those two platforms are higher priority for QA certification. We'd like to have official support for AIX but I'm not sure what the roadmap for this might be. Contact your Interwoven sales people and express your interest and maybe it will get done faster. Smiley Wink

Migrateduser

"If you build it, they will come."

... but while IBM is a big customer for Interwoven, it's probably just a matter of them or another AIX customer expressing a need and the prospect for enough licensing incentive to influence Interwoven to allocate the resources to developing or maybe just testing the platform. So, in this case, it's more like "If you commit to the licensing then I will build it and maybe other customers on the same platform will come." But that saying doesn't sound as nice.