[ale] IBM to buy SUN?

[Jeff Lightner]

We have two SCO boxes here but they are running in Legacy mode.  On one
I don't think anyone but me has logged in for the last 4+ years and the
other one they've told me I can decommission.

It's a shame.  SCO UNIX (especially after 3.2.4.2) was a rather good
UNIX implementation for PCs.   Part of its beauty was they only sold the
OS so worked hard to insure they worked on a variety of hardware.  The
evil powers that later took them over and pretended they owned Linux
source code gave them a really bad name.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Mike
Harrison
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:02 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] IBM to buy SUN?

> On a related note, it appears that another UNIX OS will eventually
join 
> SCO in the tarpit.  Killed by linux?  I can't see IBM keeping both AIX

> and Solaris.

At least I actually know people who use AIX and Solaris in production at

real businesses. I haven't seen a SCO machine in a while.. Except for
one 
running a local medical practice (green screens on serial terms).
Their "upgrade" is RedHat and a web browser interface.

I even did some DB2 on Linux a few years ago, ran well
and there are lots of weird custom business things that
use it, love it.

I'll contend IBM will support them as long as there are paying
customers. 
Maybe they will merge the two into a new future OS: SolarAIX,
SlowlarAIX.. 
SIX, SAIX .. the possible acronomyms are endless..

Overall, it might be a good thing for the FOSS community if they
continue 
their combined support for it.





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