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Originally Posted by hicksd8

Solaris on the other hand is Unix, owned by Oracle and is a big boys operating system, commercially supported, and well capable of running a big financial institution such as a bank. You wouldn't run an operating system in a bank without full commercial support services (unless you are mad).

I worked most of my professional career as an AIX admin for banks (they seem to just love IBM) and i can tell you that they use Linux in abundance. For instance, my last client (one of the biggest german banks) had ~400 AIX systems, some few Solaris and HP-UX systems (together maybe a dozen) and ~1000 Linux systems (mostly SLES) in their data centre.

For SAP HANA you are even forcced to use Linux (IIRC RHEL, SLES or Ubuntu), because even on IBMs pSeries it doesn't run on anything else.

I wouldn't invest any time in learning HP-UX because i think it is dying a slow death (mostly because HP abandoned it after Intels plan to discontinue the Itanium), but other commercial UNIXes (that means mostly AIX and Solaris) are still going strong and it seems reasonable to learn them.

As of the threads title: the question IMHO is not so much "what is good" but "what will survuve on the market". I.e. with video, Betamax was good but VHS survived. If you invested money in the worse but surviving techology VHS you were better off in the long run, sad to say.

I hope this helps.

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biomaj

biomaj(1)							   USER COMMANDS							 biomaj(1)

NAME

       biomaj - downloads and transform remote biological data banks

SYNOPSIS

       biomaj [-h]

DESCRIPTION

       BioMAJ (BIOlogie Mise A Jour) is a workflow engine dedicated
	to data synchronization and processing.The Software automates
	the update cycle and the supervision of the locally mirrored
	databank repository.  User must have roots rights to run biomaj.

OPTIONS

       -h     display the list of commands.

INSTALL

       At  installation, BioMAJ requires a database to run (MySQL), installer should first create a database (biomaj_log) and a database user (the
       one used at installation setup).
	The database configuration for biomaj can be set or modified in /etc/biomaj/db_properties/global.properties.

       In the install fails due to a SQL error, the install script must be manually run to create/upgrade the database:

       perl /usr/share/biomaj/sql/migration/update.pl

       The script will create/upgrade the database and update the configuration files.

ADMIN USER

       A default admin user (admin) is created by the scripts.	If using the biomaj-watcher, the default password (admin) MUST be changed  immedi-
       atly via the watcher interface.

       If only biomaj core is used, password is useless.
	.PP

UPGRADE

	In the case of a package upgrade, if properly configured, the migration scripts will be ran automatically at install.
	It is possible to run manually the script:
	.B See perl /usr/share/biomaj/sql/migration/update.pl -h
	for usage.

DATA BANKS

       By default, biomaj is configured (data.dir in global.properties) to write banks to /var/lib/biomaj.

EXAMPLES

       Update a bank:
	      biomaj --update genbank

       Show console
	      biomaj --update genbank --console

       Show status:
	      biomaj --status

EXIT STATUS

       biomaj returns a zero exist status if it succeeds, it does not represent the bank update status.

AUTHOR

       Olivier Sallou (olivier.sallou (at) irisa.fr) Romaric Sabas (romaric.sabas (at) irisa.fr)

version 1.2.0							September 14, 2011							 biomaj(1)