AIX 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.

AIX 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.