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AIX On the Desktop Is Getting the Boot

Posted by timothy on from the caravan-moving-on dept.

flnca writes "Today, I was playing with the thought again to purchase an AIX workstation one day when I can afford them, and I was surprised to see that IBM is going to give its IntelliStation POWER Series workstations the boot in January '09. A black day for AIX on the desktop. I really wonder what's the problem there, warehouse costs? IBM has a history of burying its best stuff (like OS/2 for instance). Some years ago, I enjoyed hacking away on an RS/6000 workstation running AIX 4.2, and it was a pure joy. Not only the kernel, but also the admin tools, like smit and smitty. Their blade-centric solution uses Windows as a client for workstation application. This truly sounds like IBM wants AIX only for servers anymore. I'm not amused. Although, eXceed on Windows with an XDCMP server running on AIX might also be a viable solution ... whatever. But it can't beat a native POWER box sitting on your desk, that's for sure."

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  1. No, by superskippy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, it's just you.

  2. Another victim of Linux... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Early on, it was said that Linux would kill more Unixs than Windows ever would.

  3. It's your fault by Call+Me+Black+Cloud · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe theirs.

    "I was playing with the thought again to purchase an AIX workstation one day when I can afford them..."

    So you haven't bought one because it's not affordable. Yeah, I have no idea why it makes business sense for them to cut that line. I guess keeping them around to amuse you wasn't enough. Either their hardware is too expensive or their users too poor.

    One things for sure - there was no profit there.

  4. Re:"Smit Happens" by hey! · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If there is any system you don't hate, it is because you don't know it well enough.

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  5. Re:Go ahead and suck it up. by Sax+Maniac · · Score: 5, Insightful

    AIX is even worse if you do any system programming it. Around here, AIX is pronounced "aches" for a very good reason. We also have a saying "AIX is always different". Anything difficult you want to do on Unix, you need to code up a special AIX-specific version. It's Always Different.

    And not different-better, different-holy-crap-this-API-was-designed-by-crack-addled-clowns.

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