[Info-vax] [OT] Architectures, was: Re: What is more important now, VMS software or hardware?

[Keith Parris]

On 9/4/2014 9:20 PM, Kerry Main wrote:
> - giving up on Power would mean giving up on AIX which is not going
> to happen any time soon.

I foresee all of what are now referred to as "Proprietary UNIXes" as 
inevitably doomed to continued decline and eventual irrelevance in the 
face of Linux.

IBM's Power server revenues have seen negative growth Y/Y since Q2 of 
2012 and dropped by more than 30% Y/Y for 3 of the last 4 quarters (and 
dropped more than 20% Y/Y the remaining quarter). That's not a model 
that can be sustained.

(If you had said Mainframe instead of AIX we'd be more in agreement.)