Can you explain the difference between IBM i, system z, AIX and system x server?
by admin on Feb.06, 2012, under Datacenter
Hi, I’m very concern about how server system works. Especially about IBM server systems. What makes IBM i, AIX, z, x and different. Could you explain me detail about it. And it’s great if you could give me resources for me to read beside from ibm. com or w3. thanks a lot! 
February 6th, 2012 on 4:36 pm
z is IBM’s mainframe computer platform which can run a variety of operating systems such as z/OS, MVS, VSE, DOS/VS, VM, and others. x is IBM’s x86 based server platform that runs Windows and Linux. i is the server platform that evolved out of IBM’s former AS/400 systems. The i has now been merged with IBM’s p server platform (which evolved from IBM’s RS/6000 server platform) and is called Power Systems. The i traditionally only ran a proprietary operating system, i/OS, but the Power System servers now run i/OS, Linux, and AIX (which was the operating system that traditionally ran on the p servers and their predecessors).
AIX is not a server platform. It is IBM’s version of UNIX.
The best resources for all these IBM products is from IBM sites. Information on each platform can also be found on Wikepedia.