Endangered IT species No. 7: The Woolly Unix Mammoth (Mainframus obsolete)Once one of the dominant creatures in the enterprise biosphere, Unix servers — and, by extension, the people paid to tend them — are heading for the tar pits. Not because they can’t still do the work, but because they’re being replaced by more nimble and less expensive Linux boxes, says Anthony R. Howard, author of “The Invisible Enemy: Black Fox” and a technology consultant for Fortune 50 companies and the U.S. military.
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