Oracle Joins IBM AIX Collaboration Center

pgsqlDao writes "CRN is reporting that Oracle is joining IBM's AIX Collaboration Center. 'IBM announced the center Dec. 16 as a $200 million investment where it will centralize AIX development, customer relations and advanced features for independent software vendors. While the figure represents existing salaries and equipment drawn together under one roof, it also represents some shift in emphasis by IBM from Linux back to its mature Unix operating system.' In November Oracle announced that it has chosen Solaris 10 as it's preferred development and deployment platform for X64 computing."

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Re:Bush lied, 2K died

[DigitalReality]

We can't impeach you. We don't know who you are.

AIX is legacy only

[mangu]

Having worked with both, I must say that Linux is way better, in all respects. However there may be some legacy applications that still need AIX, although I can't think of any right now.

I do remember one application where I worked that needed AIX: Oracle version 7 had something they called "pro*fortran", that allowed one to embed SQL statements in FORTRAN. (yes, the FORTRAN spelling is correct, because it was FORTRAN-77, not Fortran-90). In Oracle 8, AFAIK the first version that had a Linux version, pro*fortran was dropped. So, in my experience, the one situation where you need AIX is if you have FORTRAN-77 programs with embedded SQL statements.

Can't agree more

[porkThreeWays]

Thank ya Jesus! I'm not the only one! I mean there is some REALLY basic shit that some of these commercial Unices don't have. Command history anyone? This is probably the biggest annoyance. Is it that fucking hard to make my shell support the "up" key? Is it also that fucking hard to support an "insert mode" rather than always replacing? Tab completion? It's like living in the damn stone age working on these boxes I swear. I work in a mixed environment and have to switch back and forth a lot. I can tell you, 90% of my typing mistakes are because of one of the issues mentioned above.

One of our boxes is a dual 1ghz P3 SCO box w/ RAID 10 scsi disks. Sounds like it should have decent i/o, right? Fuck no. If you perform anything remotely disk intensive the box crawls to a snails pace. We have other open source operating systems on similiar hardware that never have this problem. The fucking thing loads more services on boot than an Open SuSe 10 full install with all services running at boot.

I think this myth that commercial Unices are somehow better is largely bullshit. Solaris is an exception, and there are maybe 1 or 2 other notables. But for the most part, commercial Unices are garbage. I've worked with all the Unices listed on the Unix rosetta stone and then some, and I can honestly say a good chunk didn't even attempt to make a decent commercial Unix.

I see so much retarded shit it'll make your head spin. /etc/route is a binary executable. STILL using sysadm. Super fucked up device names. root can log in on the first and second virtual terminals, but anything after that is off limits to root. more? MORE!?! more is the most archiac pager on the face of the earth. Keep it there for compatability, but give me "less" if I need it. The original vi? lmao. The original vi was written 30 years ago with the intention of programming over extremely slow network connections. There is no reason not to include a vi clone or nano. Cups is miles ahead of the bullshit printing systems I see on a daily basis. For many of them, we have a choice of like 10 HP laserjet printers and that's it. Some of these backup systems... I'd be better off with tar and gzip some are so awful. It's 2005 and you don't support network backups? Telnet? TELNET?! You're telling me to remotely adminstrate this box I've got to use telnet!? And is it that fuckin hard to give me a -h option for human readable output? I have more important things to do with my day than squint at a screen and count how many numbers long 22349873463 is.