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Seems as good a time as any to ask about the current purpose and future of AIX, HP-UX, and similar. They seem similar to mainframes now. I feel like they only e
by etaioinshrdlu 5y ago
Seems as good a time as any to ask about the current purpose and future of AIX, HP-UX, and similar. They seem similar to mainframes now. I feel like they only exist to support legacy systems -- even large enterprises today really seem to want to horizontally scale on Linux.
- pram 5y agoAIX is usually deployed because there is a requirement for DB2, from my experience. You can use it as a clustered hypervisor too, the tooling is fairly decent. It is a LOT better than HPUX (which I think has always been absolutely terrible) but not as good as Solaris. It was already “dead” when I first worked on it more than a decade ago. I think it’s a lot easier to replace with Linux than mainframes too. Doesn’t have a really good moat.