Wanting to Learn

[Guest_imported]

Is AIX avalable on shareware, or how is the best way to start learning?

 

[bjverzal]

AIX is not shareware. If you find a copy, it is illegal. Even if you were to find a copy, you would need either IBM or Bull hardware to run it on.

Go to your local book store and get the AIX Survival Guide and a few general UNIX books. Get the O'Reilly books.

Bill.

 

[Yegolev]

You get AIX with the purchase of an RS/6000, and it looks like you can get one of those pretty cheap:

http://commerce.www.ibm.com/content/home/shop_ShopIBM/en_US/eServer/pSeries/pSeries.html

Like Bill said, AIX is useless without an RS/6000 or Bull machine.

 

[Guest_imported]

NEW2002,

i believe aix is not a shareware & it's illegal to copy. but u still have options if you really want to learn aix. first read online manual from IBMRedBooks, other aix-websites, take IBM-aix course (though most of the times - expensive but worth it).

a good recommendation would-be: buy or rent an IBM rs6k box with latest aix version (it doesn't matter if it's an old box, say powerservers).

check out:

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/pubs/pdfs/redbooks/sg245132.pdf

http://www.rs6000.ibm.com/cgi-bin/ds_rslt#1

http://www.rootvg.net/

 

[Guest_imported]

Thanks for the suggestions,I will put them to use. Is AIX worth learning, meaning will it be around for awhile, and what type businesses use it most?

 

[bi]

The AIX forum is probably the wrong place to get an objective answer to your first question. I think most people using this forum are probably pro-AIX.

I work with three different "commercial" (a term I've been seeing in job want ads. I assume they mean non-linux Unix.) flavors of Unix. AIX is my favorite. It is easy to use and to take care of, but not so easy that you get bored with it.

AIX has IBM behind it and I don't think they are going to abandon it.

I don't know what type of businesses use it the most, but businesses of all sizes (from small to very large) would be potential customers. Unfortunately, some business people may be anti-IBM for whatever reason and tend more to other flavors of Unix (HP, Sun, etc.) rather than AIX.

You could go to a technical job web site and search for jobs for the various flavors of Unix to get a feel for the popularity of AIX.

 

[Yegolev]

It is popular in Atlanta. Used by some rather large corporations based in Atlanta that you have probably heard of in the passenger air-carrier business, home improvement retail, and beverage manufacturing. I can only speak for the beverage corp, but we are pleased with it. IBM provides adequate support for it and it is incredibly stable. Some of our servers have logged uptimes of over one year.

 

[Guest_imported]

we're using ibm rs6k & aix to power up 175 automated teller machines across the country - ONLINE, as well as our tellering system.

so far - GREAT performance.

 

[mrn]

AIX is a really nice "Version" of Unix from an admin's point of view and is my preffered system to work on, but in the real world there are better performing servers and *nix's out their, take Tru64 on Alpha server it blows AIX away in the speed stakes, but is rubbish at clustering compared with AIX and indeed it my not by around much longer if Compaq & HP have their way. AIX is here to stay. It is now possible to build a 'super-computer' by clustering linux PC's. See

http://www.beowulf.org/

for more info. The main players in the *nix market are Sun, IBM, HP, Compaq but who knows what might change only 8 years ago Sco & Novell we're leading the market, and where are they now?

Mike