Octave Orgeron <unixcons...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> AIX folks are rather rare to run into. In the US, you'll find more AIX in the
> north mid-west and east coast. In those cases, a lot of them are insurance,
> manufacturing, or financial services (getting rare in FS these days though).
> Most shops that have AIX are really legacy mainframe shops that have a long
> standing relationship with IBM. It is very rare to find a non-IBM shop that
> decides out the the blue (no pun intended) to bring AIX inhouse. I am seeing
> new
> interests in AIX, but most of it is focused on consolidating AIX into smaller
> and smaller foot-prints. The same kind of thinking has been going on for the
> past 10 years in the mainframe space, which makes sense because of how small
> the
> frames are getting these days. Holding onto AIX talent is a huge challenge
> for
> AIX shops. In one of the banks I use to work for, they had a small amount of
> AIX
> servers to manage and finding enough qualified folks to manage them was
> extremely hard.
AIX was close to dead 10 years ago, but IBM invested a lot and AIX recently did
even get POSIX approval before Solaris did.
Jörg
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