Qantas Ditches Linux for AIX

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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Re:Slashdot them!

[LynnwoodRooster]

They'd never buy it... Qantas knows that the average /.er gets out of the house about as often as Al Gore invents Internets...

Re:well

[The Bungi]

Interesting. When that's the case with a Windows solution, as I understand it it's always Microsoft's fault.

Re:Slashdot them!

[evilviper]

you are going by their rating system, which frankly is shit.

Your understanding of statistics is shit.

the only thing that matters is how long since their last accident and how many people died.

That's complete nonsense.

How about if I opened up a tiny little airline, that few a handful of flights every year, but hasn't had any crashes in the past 100 years? That wouldn't say they're safe, just that they don't fly enough to be statistically significant, and are not yet due for an accident. They could still be the crappiest airline around, with lousy maintenance, and the odds just haven't caught up with them. THAT is why accidents/flights are the most important metric.

point in case is qantas which last had an accident in 1951, vs delta which had one in 1996.

Delta has probably flown MANY, MANY, more flights in that 10 year span, than Qantas has in the past 50+. THAT is the far more important statistic.

And, of course, Southwest, which is ranked #2, has never had any at all, ever.

If you go to the bottom of that page, and click the link for "No Accidents" you'll see numerous small airlines that have gone without a crash for far longer than Qantas. That doesn't mean Hawaiian Airlines or PLUNA is safer than Qantas. But by your metric, they are.