> Do you have a HP-UX-11.x system? Yes, I do.
> Well, there is AIX but I am not sure whether IBM takes it for real > and I know of no "hacker" who is using AIX as development platform. I wanted to get AIX, but when I looked even at an outdated 32-bit rack-mountable "AIX" PPC system, the prices of the hardware were so high I just said - forget it! And the fact that one can't get AIX readily makes things even worse. Perhaps it is possible to obtain AIX gratis, but it certainly isn't obvious how and requires further "digging", however, without IBM's PPC hardware to run it on, it's pointless. I know I could get an old slow RS/6000 system, but I only buy 19" rack-mountable stuff. It's really not too bright to buy hopelessly obsolete HW (old but useful is fine, as long as it's rack-mountable). Plus, I've tracking AIX on and off, and I really don't see any significant innovation being done on it. IBM does the bare minimum to keep the platform so-so with the times... but IBM sure seems to do it with grinding their teeth, only when they must. That to me is no innovation, but idiocy. They can keep cowering before the sitting penguin for all I care, they're useless weaklings. > Sun is very happy with the easy success > in east Europe but conentrating to east Europe only is the wrong way. To be fair, parts of eastern (actually central, but *falsely* labeled "eastern") Europe, like Croatia, have always been Solaris strongholds, and I personally know a few top-notch Solaris experts coming from there, that are now all over the world. They have CARNet (Croatian Academic and Research Network) to thank for for that. _________________________________________________________________ Discover the new Windows Vista http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE_______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
