My thoughts are because IBM can see the metrics about where the Unix/Linux market is heading, especially in the age of the cloud. The hyperscale clouds are all

My thoughts are because IBM can see the metrics about where the Unix/Linux market is heading, especially in the age of the cloud. The hyperscale clouds are all running various Linux distributions, not AIX. FWIW my experience is showing large enterprises putting their Unix environments on life support/maintenance only mode, and not expanding their Unix usage. Seems like IBM is hedging their future on Linux.