If you have a pressing business need for near-mainframe security and/or resilience for monoserver applications, and are willing to spend the money for it, its h

If you have a pressing business need for near-mainframe security and/or resilience for monoserver applications, and are willing to spend the money for it, its hardware, staffing, and the platinum IBM Support and training, in some cases it is still cheaper than rolling your own under Linux. IBM packages a one-stop shop for a RAS experience [1] that would need a deep bench of engineering talent to reproduce were you to roll your own equivalent in Linux. So some customers would rather pay IBM than try to build such an organization and for them, AIX is worth it. Generally however with IBM’s rampant offshoring of support leading to a tremendous loss of institutional knowledge and rapid turnover of the offshore support teams, I’ve found unless you’re signing 7-9 figure renewal checks and paying for enhanced support, the support experience is way worse than it was around the 1990’s but still marginally better than other vendors. [1] https://www.ibm.com/downloads/cas/2RJYYJML https://www.ibm.com/downloads/cas/2RJYYJML