On 2013 May 8, at 16:36 , Simon Lyall wrote: > On Wed, 8 May 2013, Mark McCullough wrote: >> Linux is popular, but it isn't the only OS. Even there, I didn't used to >> have it available on the builds I had to work with. [2] > > The feeling I get where I am is that HP-UX and AIX are very much legacy > Operating Systems, a few large installations at big companies running big > applications but these are slowing being reduced and few new deployments. > > Solaris is maybe 10 years behind that. A lot of software gets ported to it > (and even supported) and plenty of places still use it as the standard "unix" > (using it for everything rather than *just* using it for legacy apps) but > market share is slowly dropping. > > Of course anything running HP-UX or AIX is likely to take at least 10 years > and $100 million to replace so they have pretty long half lives, but it would > be hard to argue they have much of a future. > > Or am I way too Valley / Internet / Open Source biased ?
Yes. Every few years I see "everything is moving to $OS". One year it was AIX. Another it was Solaris. Today it's $linux_flavor_of_the_day. Once it was even Windows Server. Next year it will probably be something else. Even if it takes 80% of the Unix-like server market, it still isn't appropriate to ignore the rest of the systems. Not everyone has the luxury and pain of living in a single Unix-like OS culture. (I believe that dealing with multiple Unix like OSs teaches you more about the tools you have much more reliably, like awk and sed and you end up needing the fancy and more trouble-prone tools less.) ---- "The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue." Edward R Murrow (1964) Mark McCullough mark.mc...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
