OT: Unix can't win

[tom heine]

similar but different problem with air traffic control

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20040917/1220226_F.shtml


tom


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Vermillion" <fp at wjv.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 2:37 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Unix can't win


> 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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> Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
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