Re: [MLUG] AIX slowly going away...

["Shawn Parker" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

heh, you mean like this: http://www.neoseeker.com/news/story/5436/

:)

On 3/8/06, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Shawn Parker wrote:
>
> > semco in columbia runs (ran?) aix. i worked there years ago. they run
> > lotus domino on top of aix on rs/6000 servers. maybe my hatred of lotus
> > domino clouded my vision, but i never saw anything special about aix.
>
>
> Maybe IBM felt the same and that is one of the reasons why the are
> embracing Linux with such enthusiasm.  I think the main reason they are
> big supporters of Linux is that they can see that it is the future.  In
> epidemiology we can predict a future age distribution in the US population
> based on the current age distribution along with current birth and death
> rates in the various age categories.  It's kinda like this with predicting
> the future of an operating system.  If the young people are using Linux
> now, and those young people are going to grow up to be the IT pros at
> businesses in a few years, then the IT pros of the future are going to
> want Linux.  IBM execs know that they have to stay future-oriented, and
> Linux is the future, at least the forseeable future.
>
> Mike
>
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