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Qantas Ditches Linux for AIX

Posted by Zonk on from the hope-that-penguin-has-a-parachute dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Australia's No. 1 airline Qantas will shift their underlying platform running its internal finance systems from Linux to IBM's AIX next month as part of a wide-ranging technology transformation project. 'We're moving from a Linux platform to an IBM AIX environment — we did that to address some stability issues we were having', said Suzanne Young, Qantas group general manager for finance improvement and segmentation. The decision was made last year, as part of the planning for the rollout."

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  1. IBM business plan at work by ntufar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It is a good example showing why IBM supports Linux:

    1. Hook up customers on a cheaply solution based on Linux and MySQL.
    2. As customer's data and number of clients grow they will start experiencing scalability problems.
    3. Propose much more scalable, reliable, dependable (and much more expensive) solution on AIX, AS/400, Mainframe.
    4. Profit!

  2. Re:well by Iron+Condor · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If there system was unstable it was probably their system design and not the OS.

    Exactly - and that's why it makes sense for them to switch to something like AIX that actually has a "system design". Which Linux doesn't. Linux is just an OS. Any one PC may or may not work with Linux. And may or may not stop working tomorrow for any of a thousand reasons.

    When an hour of downtime costs you real money, it suddenly becomes a worthwhile thing to have someone who's contractually obliged to fix your system when it breaks. Posting a bug report at freshmeat doesn't quite cut it when you have planes grounded...

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  3. Re:obsolete? by trewornan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A great example of why it makes sense to avoid using MS operating systems - if you have problems with Linux you can move over to AIX without too much difficulty. If you're having problems with AIX move your apps to BSD. Problems with BSD try Solaris.

    Having problems with Windows . . . you're fscked!