A recent press release introduces readers to Oracle University's offerings on Oracle Solaris 11 Training and Certification, pointing out the value this training delivers in enabling graduates to foster the migration of their respective enterprises to the cloud. The newest courses in the curriculum include What’s New in Oracle Solaris, previewing the latest innovations in Oracle Solaris 11; Transition to Oracle Solaris 11, designed for experienced Oracle Solaris 10 system administrators; and Oracle Solaris 11 System Administration and Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced System Administration, intended for new Oracle Solaris or UNIX system administrators.
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Viewers can watch Oracle President Mark Hurd and Executive Vice President, Systems, Oracle, introduce Oracle Solaris 11 to the IT world in this replay of the original event on November 9, 2011. In their remarks, Hurd and Fowler describe Oracle Solaris 11 as the industry's best UNIX operating system with unique features, including advanced file system technologies, advanced security, and built-in virtualization in every dimension. They explain further that Oracle Solaris 11 has been engineered, tested, and supported to get the most of SPARC and x86 systems.
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How does one describe UNIX, that Grande Dame of OSes: faded, perhaps, but vital nonetheless? Those are not Richard Fichera's words but they appear to be his sentiments in his article for Forrester, "UNIX -- Dead or Alive? and framing the title in terms of a wanted poster suggests his very thesis, that UNIX is still much in demand and likely to remain so. He contends that UNIX on proprietary RISC architectures is in for the long haul and predicts vendors, including Oracle, IBM and HP, will offer continued improvements in hardware and software.
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Oracle is mounting a full court press against Unix market leader IBM with its SPARC T4-based server line, writes Timothy Prickett Morgan in "The Register," where he notes, among other strong selling points of the new processor, its speed, which at 2.85 Gigahertz (GHz) and 3GHz is 73 and 82 per cent faster respectively than the previous 16-core SPARC T3 processors, which ran at a much slower 1.65GHz. The SPARC T4 is also capable, Prickett Morgan writes, of switching on the fly between thread hogging and normal modes of resource management.
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In 111 pages, "HP-UX to Oracle Solaris Porting Guide," an Oracle white paper, treats the subject in exhaustive detail, filling a growing need as the future of HP-UX becomes increasingly uncertain. With ISVs offering diminishing support to HP-UX 11i -- an even more threatening situation to those users running on Intel Itanium processors -- porting to the Oracle Solaris OS presents itself as a logical solution. The white paper adds the consideration that source code compatibility between platforms ensures applications ported to SPARC systems can be recompiled easily on x86 systems and vice versa.
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