I have been admining AIX boxes off and on since '91. I have yet to see a box taken down by a corrupted ODM, (well once when someone who didn't have a clue what they were doing, tried modifying it). I have done ODM commands when AIX telephone support saw where I needed a couple of things changed. And that was on some nodes on a SP. Everything that is configured in AIX is not in the ODM, just the important things. I have worked with other flavors of Unix. I like AIX now that I have had some time with it, just like I like Linux. I'm looking forward to the day when Linux will run efficiently and reliably on an 24 way box. Until then, I'll recommend AIX for mission-critical enterpise servers.
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I have been admining AIX boxes off and on since '91. I have yet to see a box taken down by a corrupted ODM, (well once when someone who didn't have a clue what they were doing, tried modifying it). I have done ODM commands when AIX telephone support saw where I needed a couple of things changed. And that was on some nodes on a SP. Everything that is configured in AIX is not in the ODM, just the important things. I have worked with other flavors of Unix. I like AIX now that I have had some time with it, just like I like Linux. I'm looking forward to the day when Linux will run efficiently and reliably on an 24 way box. Until then, I'll recommend AIX for mission-critical enterpise servers.