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List:       opensolaris-discuss
Subject:    Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled,
From:       Brian Utterback <brian.utterback () oracle ! com>
Date:       2010-09-08 17:52:15
Message-ID: 4C87CD4F.6030102 () oracle ! com
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On 09/08/10 13:36, usafverteran wrote:
> You're using an article 7 to 8 years old to base your conjecture?  Why would they \
> spend millions developing AIX if it was being killed? 
> You also fail to realize transportation, finance, insurance, banking, retail, \
> defense, and all sectors of the economy run AIX.  They have no intention of running \
> their operations deemed critical to cheap x86 hardware running Linux. 
> POWER is the first chip to have decimal floating point on-chip!  
> 
> There is something to be said for developing your operating system to run on your \
> hardware (AIX and POWER).  That way you can expoit RAS.  This isn't possible with \
> x86 and Linux.  I have seen so many Linux servers crash with no explanation why.  \
> Clusters that are unstable.   
> AIX is stable.  That is what many companies want, so they continue to buy a solid \
> architecture. 
> But whatever, kebabble.

Well, we can infer one of several possibilities:

1. IBM was lying, and they never had any intention of killing AIX.
Doesn't seem likely; it is hard to imagine a scenario where this would
make sense.

2. They changed their minds but didn't announce it.

3. The original plan was very long term.

Number 2 seems the most likely to me.

-- 
blu

It's bad civic hygiene to build technologies that could someday be
used to facilitate a police state. - Bruce Schneier
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