I personally think it harder to go to Solaris than From it.
I used to work in a shop running AIX Servers for our Oracle database.
There were many good built-ins to use when running AIX. It was a very easy
OS to configure and maintain. Its hardware was solid and well supported by
IBM.
I also think its easier to go to Oracle than DB2.
Before we had AIX and Oracle systems we used DB2 on OS/2 and NT servers.
There were so few tools for DB2 that good analysis of problems and tuning
were hard to do. I much prefered doing Oracle Admin than DB2 admin.
But, that said, I think anyone who is a good Oracle DBA could easily become
a good DB2 dba. The concepts are the same.
Plus, if you are a good Solaris Admin then you can be a good AIX admin.
Unix is Unix after all .... you just have to learn the os specific items.
Kevin
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Dear list !
I'm getting affected by the rumors ;-(
Not enough that everybody (well , mainly MS & IBM) claim that they'll beat
Oracle up very soon and take it off the market ,
there is also a rumor that Solaris is not Oracle's #1 any more.
I started to learn Solaris sys administration a couple of months ago , since
i have seen that it's the most frequently seen UNIX, and i wanted to keep up
with the market.
This question is for those of U who is doing UNIX system administration : is
it easy to sysadmin another UNIX flavor (HP-UX,AIX,Linux) if U're
comfortable with Solaris ?
Is it different inside , from sysadmin point of view ?
Should i switch to learning HP or AIX because Sun is getting abandoned by
Oracle and therefore by the IT industry ?
Should i also start looking at IBM DB2 , MS SQL Server or other DBs ,
market-wise ?
Is it easy for an Oracle DBA to become GOOD DB2 , MS SQL Server or other DB
DBA ?
DBAndrey
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