AIX is in fact a UNIX compliant operating system, from IBM. It was first released at the very back end of the 1980's, however was not really widely adopted until the early 90's. The version 7 beta has just been released (July 2010). It is currently the number 1 UNIX operating system on the market.
AIX runs exclusively on IBM's POWER systems, which are by far and away the most powerful and robust UNIX boxes. The POWER platform has been around for generations now, and builds on IBM's mainframe capabilities providing outright performance and reliability (IBM's POWER6 5GHz chips were the fastest available on the market, until recently beaten by POWER7. They significantly outperform Nehalem and Westmere chips...).
I suggest you check out www.ibm.com and Google for more information.
The base part of the two systems are the same. Solaris is a Unix system from Oracle (Sun Microsystems) AIX is a Unix system from IBM. They also run on different hardware chipsets.
Richard Bassemir has written: 'IBM AIX version 7.1 differences guide' -- subject(s): AIX (Computer file), Operating systems (Computers)
aix is a unix system from IBM
IBM AIX was created in 1986.
Gondrecourt-Aix's population is 146.
Lazarus of Aix died in 441.
The population of Aix-Noulette is 3,836.
'smit/smitty' is the administrator tool for configuration in AIX.
As of right now, the latest version of AIX is 6.1
The population of Lucenay-lès-Aix is 1,048.
Aix-les-Bains's population is 27,095.
Aix-Marseille University was created in 2012.