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Tuesday 24 June 2008, 12:26 PM
UNIX is of course far more than just Linux
A couple of weeks back (28th May) I posted that I recommended an innediate trip to the Laughing Academy for anyone still doing work in a UNIX that was non-Linux.
I had in mind the proprietary OSes of course of the likes of IBM (AIX) and HP (HP-UX) - and I still doubt if anyone is starting fresh endeavours on those platforms, though of course maintenance/legacy work will continue for a good few years yet.
Problem with my analysis: I had of course forgotten that big non-Linux UNIX still very much alive. Step forward our friends at Sun Microsystems and Solaris.
It would be patently daft to prematurely bury Solaris and I stand corrected.
Where this leaves UNIX is still an interesting question, surely - Solaris vs Red Hat vs SuSE versus non-commercial distributions of Linux, it seems.
I had in mind the proprietary OSes of course of the likes of IBM (AIX) and HP (HP-UX) - and I still doubt if anyone is starting fresh endeavours on those platforms, though of course maintenance/legacy work will continue for a good few years yet.
Problem with my analysis: I had of course forgotten that big non-Linux UNIX still very much alive. Step forward our friends at Sun Microsystems and Solaris.
It would be patently daft to prematurely bury Solaris and I stand corrected.
Where this leaves UNIX is still an interesting question, surely - Solaris vs Red Hat vs SuSE versus non-commercial distributions of Linux, it seems.
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