On Wed, 8 May 2013, Mark McCullough wrote:
Linux is popular, but it isn't the only OS. Even there, I didn't used to have it available on the builds I had to work with. [2]
The feeling I get where I am is that HP-UX and AIX are very much legacy Operating Systems, a few large installations at big companies running big applications but these are slowing being reduced and few new deployments.
Solaris is maybe 10 years behind that. A lot of software gets ported to it (and even supported) and plenty of places still use it as the standard "unix" (using it for everything rather than *just* using it for legacy apps) but market share is slowly dropping.
Of course anything running HP-UX or AIX is likely to take at least 10 years and $100 million to replace so they have pretty long half lives, but it would be hard to argue they have much of a future.
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