.. or keep your cool and embrace Solaris.
When Oracle acquired Sun, IBM tried to capitalize the situation just like every other competitor Sun had – doubts were raised about Oracle's ability to turn Sun's hardware business around, and Solaris customers were advised to flee SPARC. Fast forward four years .. Oracle appears to have successfully dispelled the doubts with proven long-term commitment to the Solaris/SPARC business with consistent investment and delivery on established roadmaps. Besides, Oracle has been innovating in the server space with engineered systems that are pre-integrated to reduce the cost and complexity of IT infrastructures while increasing productivity and performance.
On the other hand, judging by the recent turn of events at IBM such as selling off critical server technologies, decline in data center business, employee furloughs, layoffs etc., it appears that Big Blue has its own struggles to deal with. In any case, irrespective of what is happening at IBM, AIX customers who are contemplating to migrate to a modern operating platform that is reliable, secure, cloud-ready and offers a rich set of features to virtualize, consolidate, diagnose, debug and most importantly scale and perform, have an attractive alternative — Oracle Solaris. Act before it is too late.
Unfortunately migrating larger deployments from one platform to another is not as easy as migrating desktop users from one operating system to another. So, Oracle put together a bunch of documents to make the AIX to Solaris transition as smooth as possible for the existing AIX customers. Access the AIX-to-Solaris migration pages at:
http://www.oracle.com/aixtosolaris
Modernizing IBM AIX/Power to Oracle Solaris/SPARC (Oracle Technology Network)
The above pages have pointers to white papers such as IBM AIX to Oracle Solaris Technology Mapping Guide (for system admins, power users), Simplify the Migration of Oracle Database and Oracle Applications from AIX to Oracle Solaris (for DBAs, application specific admins) and IBM AIX Technologies Compared to Oracle Solaris 11 along with hands-on labs, training, blogs and other useful resources. Check those out, and use the contact information available in those pages to speak or chat with relevant Oracle team(s) who can help get started with the migration process. Good luck.