Oracle Joins IBM AIX Collaboration Center

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday December 25, 2005 @04:32AM from the on-the-way-to-one-big-corporation dept.

pgsqlDao writes "CRN is reporting that Oracle is joining IBM's AIX Collaboration Center. 'IBM announced the center Dec. 16 as a $200 million investment where it will centralize AIX development, customer relations and advanced features for independent software vendors. While the figure represents existing salaries and equipment drawn together under one roof, it also represents some shift in emphasis by IBM from Linux back to its mature Unix operating system.' In November Oracle announced that it has chosen Solaris 10 as it's preferred development and deployment platform for X64 computing."

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Re:AIX is legacy only by orasio · 2005-12-25 06:49 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Linux is a kernel.
GNU/Linux, although it's usually called just "Linux", has its bigger strength in GNU.
Of course, the GNU system is the best of modern unix-like systems.
If AIX uses GNU, then when using AIX you would be using a core part of what comprises a GNU/Linux system, or, as most people call it, a "Linux" system.
I know AIX has some "enterprise-class" features, useful for IBM buyers, that GNU/Linux doesn't. That's why it's good to have GNU/AIX!! :)