On Tuesday 19 January 2010, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
I'd give you TWO years, not ten. The problem
is that AIX is
twice that many years behind Solaris in terms of manageability
and lack-of- cruftiness, with no reasonable OS alternatives for
the godlike hardware.
AIX Isn't uniX. Really, AIX is a legacy OS. IBM doesn't seem to
be really putting any significant resources into advancing it.
When you say "advancing it," though, what kind of stuff would you
like them to be doing?
Stuff like a dependency-based boot process, something like Linux vServer
or KVM support (NOT LPARs, but equivalent to zVM or KVM/Xen on x86).
I'd also add getting rid of the ODM, but I guess that's what makes AIX,
AIX (and not UNIX). Oh, and can you shrink filesystems yet?
On server-grade OSes, at some point you cover all the
basics. There's
no dancing babies to be had in smit.
I'm not sure that smit would be necessary on any other UNIX, once you
"know" the platform. On AIX it's pretty much required because of its
strange commands, and dependency on the ODM.
Myself, I've decided I'll be getting a brand
new IBM server next year
for my home network. Natch, it'll be running AIX, not Linux, so I can
use all the RS/6000 and Apple Network Server software and such I've
accumulated over the years.
Mind you, I have IBM RS/6000 and pSeries hardware, and even have AIX
installed on some of it, but I don't see why anyone would deploy a new
server running AIX when they don't have existing applications for AIX to
run on it.
Pat
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