Linked by Rahul on Thu 23rd Oct 2008 14:25 UTC
ServerWatch writes about the slow but sure death of UNIX by the onslaught of Linux and customers moving from older proprietary UNIX systems to commercially supported open source enterprise Linux distributions.
"Linux does have one killer feature that is driving the switch: lower cost. Many companies are discovering Linux to be extremely attractive from a cost perspective. Take the experience of Sabre, a travel company that replaced Solaris with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) running on x86 machines, resulting in lowering costs 90 percent (with a three-fold speed gain to boot). These potential cost savings, which include hardware maintenance costs savings, are not to sniffed at."
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2005-07-08
Depends on how you look at "dead." Dying? Yes, I won't deny that. IRIX was decommissioned by SGI in 2006 but there are a few places where it's still used. Effects houses still have some hardware/software combos, a few scientific applications etc.