Granted I'm not a unix admin guru, but my experience is that if you've got a unix that works reliably with little problems under your load stick to what you've got.
Each unix variant has its own little quirks that depending upon your users, and you, might be and issue.
For example, HP-UX has some quirkiness about how it handles busy disks and large file copies (where the file being copied is a substantial percentage, like 80-90% or more, of the FS buffer) all IO on the system stops. For busy disks you can get physical volume errors where disks are going offline under extremely heavy load.
Solaris on the other hand handles these particular case easily with much less disruption to service and users.
In all reality I crashed Oracle 8i last thursday, granted it does take some work, but unless you're running the most current release 8.1.6.3.0 or 8.1.7.x.x there are hundreds of ways to crash it if you hunt around Oracle's support site. Most users will never hit across them, but some will.
I personally manage a Data Warehouse that I'm not sure could be done with MySQL or PostgreSQL. While both are nice products, neither one really allows me to maintain a database in excess of 1TB. While I know they can do it, I'm not sure its going to continue to scale the way we need it to.
I agree with the others though that support is nice (I've used it several times), and scalability really does set the commercial products above.
Every boss I've ever had has been more than 30, and I've always gotten respect from them. For me it didn't happen, I had to earn it, but once I did the respect has always been there (even when I was 16 and getting hired for the summer at a petrochemical company).
My advice would be to look around and find a boss who gives you the respect that you deserve. I've so far found 2, and the second one I follow loyally when he moves.
I personally attempted school and failed because of a single set of courses, Calc if you must know. I can handle any computer course you throw at me, literally, but I chose to drop out when it became apparent that as long as that course was in my way I'd never complete the degree anyway.
While it may not be a good idea to skip the college route, and I certainly expect there to be repercussions later, right now my goal is just to accomplish, learn and progress as far as I can before that dreaded day comes.
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Granted I'm not a unix admin guru, but my experience is that if you've got a unix that works reliably with little problems under your load stick to what you've got.
Each unix variant has its own little quirks that depending upon your users, and you, might be and issue.
For example, HP-UX has some quirkiness about how it handles busy disks and large file copies (where the file being copied is a substantial percentage, like 80-90% or more, of the FS buffer) all IO on the system stops. For busy disks you can get physical volume errors where disks are going offline under extremely heavy load.
Solaris on the other hand handles these particular case easily with much less disruption to service and users.
In all reality I crashed Oracle 8i last thursday, granted it does take some work, but unless you're running the most current release 8.1.6.3.0 or 8.1.7.x.x there are hundreds of ways to crash it if you hunt around Oracle's support site. Most users will never hit across them, but some will.
I personally manage a Data Warehouse that I'm not sure could be done with MySQL or PostgreSQL. While both are nice products, neither one really allows me to maintain a database in excess of 1TB. While I know they can do it, I'm not sure its going to continue to scale the way we need it to. I agree with the others though that support is nice (I've used it several times), and scalability really does set the commercial products above.
Every boss I've ever had has been more than 30, and I've always gotten respect from them. For me it didn't happen, I had to earn it, but once I did the respect has always been there (even when I was 16 and getting hired for the summer at a petrochemical company).
My advice would be to look around and find a boss who gives you the respect that you deserve. I've so far found 2, and the second one I follow loyally when he moves.
I personally attempted school and failed because of a single set of courses, Calc if you must know. I can handle any computer course you throw at me, literally, but I chose to drop out when it became apparent that as long as that course was in my way I'd never complete the degree anyway. While it may not be a good idea to skip the college route, and I certainly expect there to be repercussions later, right now my goal is just to accomplish, learn and progress as far as I can before that dreaded day comes.