On 10/29/2010 7:04 AM, Orvar Korvar wrote:
AIX is soon dead, according to IBM executives. That is the reason there are not too many great AIX people around.
Nah, I haven't seen any pronouncements of the death of AIX in the last couple of years. At the minimum, it will continue on like OS/400 or the other legacy IBM OSes (i.e. no new features, but supported for decades). I expect AIX will still have support when I retire in 20 years.
That said, AIX admins are rare, and will become and endangered species soon. Particularly, anyone under 40 at this time. I'd be willing to bet that there aren't more than 100 people world-wide born after 1980 who could actually lay claim to being a serious AIX admin.
It's actually one of the big problems with legacy OSes - not that you can't get support, but that there is no talent left in the marketplace to talk to support. :-)
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