On 10/30/18 12:47 PM, Mark Rousell wrote: > 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 I would add "and FreeBSD" here. Mentioning only one of BSD descendants, the one with largest userbase. Valeri > 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. > > > -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++