Friends, I have done "SCSA for Solaris OS 10" certification. However, in my current project I am working on IBM AIX but my work is very limited here. I find myself more inclined towards Red Hat Linux as I find it easy to do any R & D on it. I am planning for RHCE Exam. What do you think? Will it add to my II Career? Or should I rather understand Solaris to make use of my certification...? I am going to have a Corporate Training of Solaris within the organization next month. I have already had two weeks' training within the company but it didn't help me because I am not getting to work on it in the company. I am rather confused now.

Can I understand both the OSes (Solaris and Red Hat) side by side without any conflicts? What do you suggest me?

Yes
Reasons:

• If you do not understand Solaris in and out, it means, you have wasted the months/years you spent in getting that SCSA certificate.

• If for your future interviews, you are going to tell the companies that you have "SCSA" certificate, first thing IMO they'll ask you would be about "Solaris" system since they would like to know whether you are the kind of person who gets certificates just for showing them off or you really know the stuff ! [Basically to check your sincerity]

Your points are really true. I will install Solaris with VirtualBox and see how I go exploring about it.

But if you are really not interested in Solaris, you have a choice of forgetting all about that degree and the time spent there. Consider starting a "new life" with RHCE ! Since for example I am not least interested in dealing with Maths, so even if I study it very hard, I shall never be able to give my best in solving the Maths problems [due to my lack of interest].

Red Hat is the heavyweight of the Linux certs since RCHE is widely supported at the enterprise level...if you haven't noticed (well what's going on where I work in North America) but Solaris in my honest opinion continues to decline in the market. I have seen my clients go from almost an entirely Solaris 8 shop to using the Power 5, 6 & 7 platforms with AIX 5.3 and AIX 6.1.

Install a VM and practice with Fedora which is the test bed for RHEL. Get used to RPM and YUM and you may find yourself a little more comfortable with AIX as it uses RPM as well to install and configure. AIX is IBM's variant of .nix and it takes years of experience to really say you know it well...

Just my two cents - hope this helps!

I will take sides with linuxlearner17 on this one,.. Red Hat is the way to go. It is realy a heavyweight. Like he said install VM and try you hands on Fedora/CentOS.