avilla@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Aldo Villa) (06/06/90)
I heard rumors that IBM is going to dump UNIX-AIX because they are having too many problems with it. How well-founde are these rumors? Aldo.
chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) (06/07/90)
According to avilla@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Aldo Villa): >I heard rumors that IBM is going to dump UNIX-AIX because they are having too >many problems with it. > >How well-founde are these rumors? > Aldo. This rumor is true! My source at IBM confirms it. He even told me the IBM code name for the new OS: *plonk* -- Chip, the new t.b answer man <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!ateng!tct!chip>
drake@drake.almaden.ibm.com (Sam Drake) (06/07/90)
Nonsense. IBM just introduced a major new line of computers, the RISC System/6000, that ONLY run AIX. To "dump" AIX/UNIX would mean to abandon the hundreds of millions of dollars that went into developing that product, without any payback. To do as you suggest makes no business sense whatsoever. IBM executives have publically stated that AIX is one of IBM's two strategic platforms. Sam Drake / IBM Almaden Research Center Internet: drake@ibm.com BITNET: DRAKE at ALMADEN Usenet: ...!uunet!ibmarc!drake Phone: (408) 927-1861
rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) (06/08/90)
richp@romulus.la.locus.com (Richard L. Pettit Jr.) writes: > avilla@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Aldo Villa) writes: > >I heard rumors that IBM is going to dump UNIX-AIX because they are having too > >many problems with it. > >How well-founde are these rumors? ... > I might speculate that they are not well founded at all. With the > release of the RS-6000, IBM has become as committed to AIX as they > are to VM or MVS. There's reason to think the commitment may be short-term only: IBM has announced that they will go to OSF/1 when it becomes available. Their part of an OSF press release not too long ago said that they were committed to OSF/1; additional comments reported in the trade press said that they'd be going to OSF/1 on the PS/2 first, since the RS/6000 folks had their hands busy right now (with the product just coming out). Of course, there are reasons you might second-guess these statements: First and foremost, they came in an OSF press release which was an almost obligatory "show of unity" among OSF members after the latest affair with UI broke off. Second (but also important) is that OSF/1 has to exist, for real, in a form near enough to product quality, before anyone is going to make a *real* real commitment to it. So believe what you want of it, but the rumors do have some basis in statements by IBM. -- Dick Dunn rcd@ico.isc.com uucp: {ncar,nbires}!ico!rcd (303)449-2870 ...Simpler is better.
eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) (06/17/90)
Well, that certainly is an interesting rumor.
Well, I will send this RS/6000 box I have home. No sense in having an
unsupported product, .... but I recall some software got started
that way.....little used. You can go back to MVS. No more cryptic commands,
no batch, no ISAM files,
no // EXEC PGM=IEBGENER, no.....
//SYSIN DD *
You can just ignore us.
Forget that a little man working on a nearly abandoned machine......
--e. nobuo miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
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