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. -- Mark Rousell