Anyone here familiar with AIX?

[Tony Scharf]

All good info.

And I'd take you up on the offer, if I didn't have a wife and son who
both have colds waiting for me on the other side of the pond.  I've
got 3 more tips planned this year, so next time!

Tony

On 2/6/10, Jay Vaughan <jayv at synth.net> wrote:
>> what anythin IBM makes does to your IT buget..).   I don't expect it
>> to be much, but I just want to know if we are going to want to seek
>> additional staff, as we are at the tipping point on that anyway.
>>
>
> treat it as just another unix machine in your lab, and learn a few
> extra commands .. btw, you'll be getting the AIX box from the
> frankfurt office, no doubt, so don't they have an operations-procedure
> document describing the bare-minimum company ops for the system,
> itself?   my experience with AIX has been to target it as part of a
> build system, i haven't done much admin on it as an ops guy, but from
> what i have seen, and been told, is that its just a weird unix system,
> and IBM will have every answer you could possibly need in this
> regard.  all AIX systems come with access for the admin to the ..
> frankly superlative .. IBM documentation.
>
> more than likely you won't have to do much, but you should find out
> from the other AIX folks in your company what they expect the basics
> would be.  treat it like you would treat a weird linux box.
>
>
>> We asked if we could run the Oracle DB on x86, but they have a number
>> of AIX dependent services that have been customized.
>
> there are good reasons to run AIX, apparently, but i've only ever
> heard that from financial people who love spending money.
>
>
>>  They won't
>> support porting that to anything that will run on x86.  The irony is
>> we asked for this system to replace an old system running on an ibm I
>> series (OS400) that everyone just hates (would have been awesome in
>> 1982...).
>>
>
>
> x86 versus PPC in some codebases tends to be tedious.
>
> i quite like the looks of the AIX hardware, though, myself .. they are
> solid little servers.
>
>> I considered if this would be OT for the bar,  but I don't think there
>> is any such thing.
>
>> Well, back to trying to find coffee in the Frankfurt airport.
>>
>
> hey, take the weekend off and take a short flight from frankfurt to
> vienna!  you can bunk at our place!
>
> ;
> --
> Jay Vaughan
>
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