Impressions on Oracle

There are enough blogposts mourning OpenSolaris (or hoping for Illumos). What follows are some real world experiences in dealing with Oracle since it took over the Sun Solaris trainings in Belgium.

1. Remote labs are free!
Solaris teachers and students can now connect to remote labs with nice hardware for free. This is a great addition to the simple Intel machines in the classroom.

2. Support is excellent!
In the weeks prior to the first Oracle Solaris training several people from Oracle called and/or emailed me to make sure everything was okay. These are real people that don't mind sharing their real email address and their real phone number. Cool! And they were very friendly and helpful!

3. Support is excellent!
When sending an email on Sunday to report a problem, there is an almost immediate response from one of these real people. On a Sunday?! Super cool!

OpenLDAP trainer

I'm looking for someone that can teach OpenLDAP (one day) to students (working system administrators) that just had a two day introduction to Samba. Somewhere in November/December this year, with book LDAP System Administration by O'Reilly.
Mail me (paul.cobbaut at gmail).

Linux Training

Today i reviewed and updated (only minor changes) the "First Steps" chapter of our Linux Fundamentals course. This chapter is an introduction to commands to handle directories, files and file contents. Remember, this is for absolute beginners.

It would be nice if some Linux enthousiasts take a look at it (18 pages, 65kb pdf) and shoot some feedback in my direction (any suggestion and critics are welcome!).

The only 'issue' i have with this chapter is that it is organized by command... meaning it requires a teacher to also stress subjects like "tab completion" and "absolute and relative paths".

Thank you Ghosty and Wouter, one day all your much appreciated feedback will be included (i'm keeping your e-mails until job done!)