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Minor point: Proprietary UNIX OSs aren't artifacts of the seventies. OSs like AIX and Solaris live on. A former employer sells enterprise software for both of t
by chefandy 5y ago
Minor point: Proprietary UNIX OSs aren't artifacts of the seventies. OSs like AIX and Solaris live on. A former employer sells enterprise software for both of those environments to this day. Banks, especially, seem to love AIX in my experience.
- swlkr 5y agoWow that’s crazy, I love learning new tidbits about how older tech like cobol or mainframes or something are still around and plugging along
- chefandy 5y agoKind of mind boggling. You figure "surely there must have been a point at which being that change-averse bit them in the ass hard enough to modernize their approach" but... guess not. In fact, one large banking system I worked on in the late aughts completely revamped their megalith of a back-end for a major component of their system and the only two things they didn't change were using AIX and Oracle.
- scns 5y agoRich Hickeys Company Cognitect is now owned by a bank from brazil. They started off with Clojure though.
- spacemanmatt 5y agoI'm still supporting a legacy app running PHP5 and Java 1.4
- chipotle_coyote 5y agoHuh. I genuinely didn't know Solaris -- the closed-source commercial version, rather than offshoots like Illumos and OpenIndiana -- was still kicking around, but sure enough there's an "Oracle Solaris 11" page.
- chefandy 5y agoTurned 30 last year (basically). Well-funded inertia might float it for another 30. I'll bet even joking about EOLing it could trigger flop sweats in some enterprise technical executives.