Erik Trimble <erik.trim...@oracle.com> wrote:
> 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 may be that the universe you describe exists somewhere..... The universe I
live in, however does not match your description.
Thanks to the fact that IBM aproached universities, AIX may even be in a
better long term situation than Solaris. Since at least two years, there is an
AIX course that educates AIX admins at the Freie Universität Berlin. I expect
that more than 100 students born after 1980 did attend these courses.
There was an attempt from the Freie Universität Berlin to offer such a course
with Solaris before but Sun did prevent this from happening as Sun was not
interested in giving access to the needed hardware (bigger irons) to the
students.
> 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. :-)
Although there was no sufficient support for universities by Sun, the existance
of Indiana did attract a lot of students that before did know only Linux. The
fact that Oracle stopped offering source code updates on August 18th 2010 let
many of them rethink their interest. I currently see Solaris as an endangered
species and I hope that Oracle willl rethink it's strategy before it is too
late.
Jörg
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