That is nonsense and just tabloid talk. IBM just recently announced AIX 7 for their POWER 7 server line. Linux cannot in any way use the full capabilities of POWER architecture the way it is exploited with AIX. If IBM was to eliminate AIX, they would have to also kill their POWER architecture, which isn't going to happen.
Their POWER servers have a good margin and they make money from them. There are also very large companies that run AIX and have no intention to turn over their AIX-powered servers to Linux on cheap x86 hardware. Linux doesn't have anywhere near the features that AIX can boast about. RHEL clustering is a joke at best, and Xen virtualization clustering on RHEL is about as pathetic as one can get. There isn't any way I would entrust my company to RHEL for mission critical workloads. Absolutely not. There is a complete fabrication that Linux is cheaper than AIX or Solaris. Well, if I want to setup an infrastructure to patch, install, and maintain servers, it won't cost me any money to use NIM or JumpStart. However, to get those features with Red Hat Satellite server, you will pay hundreds per machine. So if you have 1000 servers you need to provision with RHEL, then you just spent $600,000 - $700,000. When they come out with KVM in RHEL 6, if you want to manage them it will cost you a few hundred more per virtual. EVERY time one turns around, Red Hat is charging for some "feature" that is free with AIX. Xen virtualization compared to AIX DLPARs is laughable. AIX has had more features for 10 years than Red Hat is rolling out in RHEL 6. No big AIX applications? Oracle runs on AIX. DB2 runs on AIX. WebSphere runs on AIX. SAP runs on AIX. AIX runs banking, transportation, finance, retail, health care, insurance, defense, any sector of the economy you can think of. There is an old saying, "you get what you pay for." That cannot be more true than it is with Linux. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
