OT: Unix can't win

[Bill Vermillion]

As Bill Campbell was scratching "For a good prime call 
391581 * 2^216193 -1" on the wall, he suddenly said:

> On Tue, Jan 04, 2005, Ted B Dodd wrote:
> >http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1746236,00.asp

> That's news? Why do you think all the proprietary Unix vendors
> other than SCO have been moving into the Linux space (or at
> least trying to :-)?

And of course that information came from a Microsoft spokesman too.

> I did find the comment about the company switching from AS400s
> to Windows 2003 server interesting, particularly since I've
> been told by local people who Should Know(tm) that Microsoft's
> main accounting applications still run on AS400s, and that
> their attempts to run them under Windows have failed miserably.

> ...

The article also mentioned that Enterprise systems were moving from
proprietary Unix to MS and/or Linux.   But what you would call
an enteprise system 10 years ago is not the same as you see to day
- when more companies are computerized.

The proprietary systems are getting larger and more powerful - but
the commodity/pc/Intel architecture systems are far more powerful
today so some of the old systems may not be needed.


Now - here is a question.  On the meltdown of the airline computer
system during the Christmas holiday does anyone know the operating
system and/or hardware environment.

The old systems such as Sabre just never failed.   My hunch [not
proven] is that someone was trying to do something cheaper, and
those AS-400s as you mention were awfully rugged, and the Z-series
from IBM running the IBM OS or mutliple instance of Linux just
don't fall over.

Bill
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