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The Future of Commerical Unices?
An anonymous reader asks: "I was recently wondering about the state of the commercial Unix world and what their plans are for the coming releases. I know Sun just released Solaris9 and HP is killing Tru64. But what about others like IRIX, HP-UX, SCO, etc? How has the rise of Linux affected these companies plans?"
IBM with AIX and Caldera with OpenUNIX are pursuing a linux compatibility layer strategy, which should allow Linux binaries to work out-of-the-box. I've not had the greatest success with OpenUNIX, but that doesn't necessarily reflect on Caldera. I guess you'll be buying support and hardware specific tuning (in AIX's case) while taking advantage of the masses of development done on and for Linux systems.
My understanding is that components from Tru64 will be integrated into HPUX in future releases. This article states, "HP Tru64 UNIX, an integral part of HP's UNIX portfolio, also showed strong results in the DH Brown report, earning top marks in two of the report's five categories. As part of its ongoing plan to continue enhancing the functionality of HP-UX, HP plans to bring key features from Tru64, including its TruClusters and Advanced File System capabilities, into future releases of HP-UX11i."
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