IBM's Linux Push Shows AIX Is No Sacred Cow (TechWeb)
TechWeb examines IBM's
Linux commitment and its effect on the company's proprietary AIX OS.
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That is, as Linux continues to take on more enterprise features, it could come into conflict with AIX. But the vendor seems to be encouraging that development, rather than resisting it. It's got 250 or so programmers working on Linux development and, most recently, came out with a high-end, aggressively priced system that will run AIX, Linux or both."
Posted Nov 20, 2002 0:06 UTC (Wed)
by strombrg (subscriber, #2178)
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IBM's Linux Push Shows AIX Is No Sacred Cow (TechWeb)
That's somewhat normal for IBM. IBM is the marketer of a zillion OSes; they're used to that. What's a little different for IBM is marketing someone else's OS.