:Australian Industry Standard: When Linux grows up, IBM glad to boot AIX
Australian Industry Standard: When Linux grows up, IBM glad to boot AIX
Aug 16, 2001, 14 :43 UTC (53 Talkback[s]) (11039 reads) (Other stories by Ashlee Vance)
"IBM Corp. continued its vocal support of the Linux operating system Tuesday, saying the
company will gladly drop its version of Unix from servers and replace it with Linux if the
software matures so that it can handle the most demanding tasks.
Executives speaking here at the company's developer conference outlined reasons for the
company's Linux support, pointing to features in the operating system that could push it past Unix
for back-end computing. While they admit that Linux still has a way to go before it can compete
with the functions available on many flavors of Unix, IBM officials said that Linux could prove
more cost effective and be a more user-friendly way to manage servers.
"We are happy and comfortable with the idea that Linux can become the successor not just for
AIX but for all Unix operating systems," said Steve Mills, senior vice president and group
executive of the IBM Software Group, during a news conference."
