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 mangu · 2005-12-25 06:03 · Score: -1, Troll

what on earth does Linux have that's 'way better, in all respects' ?

I confess that I haven't used AIX for a few years, so I'm not sure how it has evolved. However, having seen witnessed the y2k transition on both, there's one thing that would be enough to make any sysadmin switch: apt-get. Comparing the work that we had to do to update the AIX varsion in 2000 (both the administrative work to update the license and the technical work to install the new version) to the simple "apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade" in Linux is enough to justify the transition.