Peter Arremann wrote: > On Thursday 06 March 2008, Ugo Bellavance wrote: >> Oh, great, any ideas about other Unix flavors? (AIX, HP-UX) > > If I were you, I would forget about AIX at least at the beginning until you > are solid with Solaris and HP-UX. Yes, it has good market share, but it is > too different from everything else. Ok > Until recently I was a lead over a 8 person Unix admin team and our policy was > to always hire people with little experience and then move them up as they > learn stuff. > > I usually started them on Solaris 9. It is the closest to Linux (which most > had experience with). Then we went on to Solaris 10 - SMF and so on are a big > step forward but you will still find a ton of pre Sol10 out there, so if you > don't have Solaris 9 or prior experience, you're not quite there. Ok, what about opensolaris? Is > > Then, the next step is HP-UX. You can get a C3xx0 or J6xx0 on ebay for little > money these days. PA-RISC is dead, but once the OS is booted, there aren't > that many differences between running on Itanium or PA-RISC. > > Finally, if they got that far, we would add some AIX. AIX is very different > from what you would expect in a Unix flavor, ODM and all, but then again, > Solaris 10 has moved quite a bit away from being a traditional Unix too. > > Peter. Thanks for your great advice, Ugo