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09-18-2017

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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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install-solaris

install-solaris(1M)													       install-solaris(1M)

NAME

       install-solaris - install the Solaris operating system

SYNOPSIS

       install-solaris

       install-solaris	invokes  the  Solaris  Install	program. Depending on graphical capability and available memory at the time of invocation,
       install-solaris invokes either a text-based installer or a graphical installer.

       The following minimum requirements for physical memory dictate which features are available during installation:

       For SPARC machines:

       128 MB

	   Minimum physical memory for all installation types

       128 MB

	   Minimum physical memory required for windowing system

       384 MB

	   Minimum physical memory required for graphical-based installation

       For x86 machines:

       256 MB

	   Minimum physical memory for all installation types

       256 MB

	   Minimum physical memory required for windowing system

       512 MB

	   Minimum physical memory required for graphical-based installation

       In some cases, even if the minimum physical memory is present, available virtual memory after system startup can limit the number  of  fea-
       tures available.

       install-solaris	exists	only  on  the Solaris installation media (CD or DVD) and should be invoked only from there. Refer to the  for more
       details.

       install-solaris allows installation of the operating system onto any standalone system. install-solaris loads the software available on the
       installation media. Refer to the  for disk space requirements.

       Refer to the  for more information on the various menus and selections.

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcdrom  (Solaris instal-  |
       |			     |lation media)		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Evolving			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

       pkginfo(1), install(1M), pkgadd(1M), attributes(5)

       It is advisable to exit install-solaris by means of the exit options in the install-solaris menus.

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