30 Oct
2018
30 Oct
'18
5:47 p.m.
On 30/10/2018 16:40, mark wrote:
Linux was IBM's silver bullet on a free platter. I mean, *how* many operatings systems do you want to support...?
Yup, it must cost them a pretty penny to maintain all those proprietary operating systems (especially when you include their mainframe ones). I suspect that Linux will eventually replace i and AIX -- eventually. But I bet there are some significant clients who are still willing to pay money to keep them going.
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Mark Rousell