Start buttons belong on Tiger Wood's golf cart. Give me car keys that jangle when I insert them into a 1968 Dodge Charger. The music that engine makes ... it enters your body through your soul before your ear drums even register the vibration. And give me Save buttons on browser-based interfaces, too. This amorphous invisible background save that I'm supposed to trust is happening is the brainchild of developers who put posters of Joseph Stalin on their walls.
In spite of my Luddite tendencies, I do like new technologies. I also like a variety of them. If you ask my personal opinion, the more operating systems, the better. More jobs for sysadmins. More jobs for developers. More arm-wrestling matches in the server room. And more interesting problems. That's my idea of fun.
Unfortunately, it's not The Man's idea of fun. Forces I can't possibly understand and would never take for a joy ride in a stolen Dodge Charger push for consolidation and cost-cutting with the frenzy of a four barrel carburetor sucking air at wide open throttle (WOT). Even if, like me, you prefer a more genteel IT environment, you have to adapt. And so, we sometimes wave good-bye to our friends.
If you're facing a migration away from AIX, consider Oracle Solaris. Yeah, it's designed to handle the competitive pressures of today's IT environments...
- Cloud-ready provisioning, security, and virtualization
- Quick to reallocate compute, storage, and network resources
- Zones, ZFS, Dynamic Tracing, Predictive Self Healing and Trusted Extensions reduce downtime and simplify the delivery of application deployment environments
- Optimized to run best on Oracle hardware, and run Oracle applications best
- Automated migration, assistance, and education for DBAs and Power/AIX administrators migrating to Oracle Solaris.
... and yeah, because the Oracle stack is optimized to run best on Oracle Solaris (and Oracle Linux), it gives you some crazy good numbers compared to AIX ...
- Up to 2.4x greater database performance
- Up to 3.4x faster Java application server performance
- Increased Oracle application performance : 1.9x faster for Siebel CRM (4) and 3x faster for JD Edwards
... but it's also got soul. And it doesn't have a dumb Start button.
Below is a link to a hands-on lab and some other resources to help you understand what's involved in migrating from AIX to Oracle Solaris.
Hands-On Lab: Oracle Solaris Administration for AIX Sysadmins
by Glynn Foster
Walks an AIX sysadmin through the basic administration of Oracle Solaris 11 and how it compares to IBM AIX Enterprise in areas including installation, software packaging, file systems, user management, services, networking, and virtualization. Even makes helps you navigate your way through documentation, man pages, and online how-to articles.
More Resources
- Benefits of Migrating from AIX to Oracle Solaris
- Technical Resources for Migrating from AIX/Power to Oracle SPARC/Solaris
- IBM AIX to Oracle Solaris Technology Mapping Guide (pdf)
- Comparison of IBM AIX Technologies to Oracle Solaris
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Photograph of '68 Dodge Charger courtesy of Kobac via Wikipedia Commons Creative Commons License 2.0
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