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AIX is dying too ...AIX is dying too ...Posted Aug 21, 2012 13:11 UTC (Tue) by Wol (guest, #4433)In reply to: Kamp: A Generation Lost in the Bazaar by drag Parent article: Kamp: A Generation Lost in the Bazaar
From what I can make out, IBM's attitude is "linux is going to replace it. If customers are happy to pay us to maintain it, we're happy to take their money".
But AIX is now very definitely a profit centre. When it can no longer compete in customers' minds, and starts losing money, it will be gone.
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AIX is dying too ... Posted Aug 21, 2012 13:59 UTC (Tue) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
> But AIX is now very definitely a profit centre. When it can no longer compete in customers' minds, and starts losing money, it will be gone.
It's hella expensive to migrate away from it. Just like any enterprise platform that a large-ish corp depends on for core functionality. The time and money it will take for most companies to move away from AIX far outstrips the cost of keeping it.
(Not to also mention the risk to your career if you decide to take something that is working and replace it with something that is cheaper... only to find the new solution doesn't work.)
IBM knows this and sets up licensing accordingly and will continue to make a killing for a very long time.
If it wasn't for this fact 'big iron unix' would of been dead years ago, I expect.
AIX is dying too ... Posted Aug 21, 2012 17:46 UTC (Tue) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]
AIX will die, not because enterprises migrate away from it, but because no new projects are going to be started on it. Eventually all of the old projects will be replaced by something bigger, faster, more integrated and/or more "cloudy".
AIX is dying too ... Posted Aug 21, 2012 18:03 UTC (Tue) by dark (subscriber, #8483) [Link] But "eventually" could easily be decades, as we found out in the runup to Y2k :) I guess we'll see what's left in 2038.
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