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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <luclms$7hu$1 at usenet01.boi.hp.com>,
	Keith Parris <keithparris_deletethis at yahoo.com> writes:
> 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.)

Well, for those here who were certain government usage would keep VMS
around for decades more, the government is using AIX.  And even with
people like me advocating it as a potential cost saving (as a replacement
for both Unix and Windows) I watched government interest in Open Source
decrease considerably during my last few years with DOD.  Don't go
counting AIX out yet.  Or Solaris for that matter.

bill
 

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