YDL PowerStation - coming soon

Posted Jun 7, 2008 23:32 UTC (Sat) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047)
In reply to: YDL PowerStation - coming soon by muwlgr
Parent article: YDL PowerStation - coming soon

Why do you want AIX anyway?  We have Linux!

YDL PowerStation - coming soon

Posted Jun 8, 2008 7:52 UTC (Sun) by muwlgr (guest, #35359) [Link] (5 responses)

Heh. AIX is what big business demands. AIX/pSeries is what rotates big money between involved
parties. Linux and generic hardware would not put as much money into your pocket :>

YDL PowerStation - coming soon

Posted Jun 8, 2008 11:21 UTC (Sun) by pjdc (guest, #6906) [Link] (1 responses)

Enjoy it while it lasts.

YDL PowerStation - coming soon

Posted Jun 9, 2008 2:17 UTC (Mon) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link]

Heh. 



And who says Linux only belongs on generic hardware? It can run on any sort of hardware you
want. I know that SGI has some 512-way machines (Numa, not clusters) that run Linux. Hell they
say the Altix 4700 supports up to 1024 CPUs if you use dual-core Itanium systems.
:)

AIX is legacy

Posted Jun 9, 2008 6:12 UTC (Mon) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link] (2 responses)

People are migrating from AIX, and from all proprietary Unix systems; and with good reason. Why pay more when you get less?

AIX is legacy

Posted Jun 9, 2008 21:10 UTC (Mon) by muwlgr (guest, #35359) [Link] (1 responses)

Just imagine what would happen to IBM/HP/Sun(/SGI?) if all people were this smart :>

AIX is legacy

Posted Jun 9, 2008 21:34 UTC (Mon) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link]

That hardware vendors would have to make sure that Linux runs fine on their iron, instead of wasting time developing their proprietary incompatible versions of Unix?

Incidentally, (almost) all those vendors make good business selling Linux machines; and those that don't do so well can only blame themselves. Contributors (e.g. to kernel development) get extra points. Big business is learning fast to distinguish, or so it seems.