Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 27th Jan 2006 20:13 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"Is Unix dead? My answer is no, it's not dead. As a matter of fact, I think I hear it laughing on its way to the bank. Fewer Unix systems are being shipped, but they're commanding a higher premium than ever. Unix still represents a $2 billion [EUR 1.7 billion] market, the largest operating-system market by far. Despite Windows Server recent gains, it still represents about $1.6 billion [EUR 1.3 billion], when you're looking at operating system-only revenues. And Linux in terms of revenues represents one-tenth of what the good, gray Unixes combined represent. Granted the future belongs to Linux, but as a $2 billion market, is Unix dead?"
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"Errm, if you ever talked to IBM sales people and ever watched their presentations, in the last few years they were explicitly saying that Linux is the long term platform for IBM and AIX is relegated to a "legacy"."
Apparently the IBM sales people didn't get the memo about the new UNIX/AIX reseach facility they are building in Austin, Texas.
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2005-11-12
> As far as I can tell, they were never moving away from. Everyone thinks that just because they are pumping money into Linux, they've given up on AIX. This is total bull.
Errm, if you ever talked to IBM sales people and ever watched their presentations, in the last few years they were explicitly saying that Linux is the long term platform for IBM and AIX is relegated to a "legacy". This is why they started marketing "Linux affinity" so strongly and this is why letter "L" was attached to AIX version numbers -- to slowly move the customers away from AIX to Linux on Power hardware. Obviously now they realized that customers don't care much for Linux on pSeries and really want AIX. This is why this shift is taking place, AIX is IBM's cash cow and not Linux. Guess what, there is no letter "L" in the upcoming AIX 6. Linux is a comfortable way in the door for IBM and the real end game is AIX -- riding on the Linux hype way IBM sells Linux to the customer, then moves them to AIX...