Re: IBM i & AIX

[Trevor Perry <trevor@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I see what you did there. You joked about Oracle being a competitor to
Power! That's funny!

On 4/1/13 7:19 AM, "Pete Massiello - ML" <pmassiello-ml@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Look for an announcement today, that IBM I will be discontinued and
> merged into AIX.  With the addition of VIOS a few years back, IBM stated
> that there was no reason to have two operating systems on the Power
> platform, and instead had been using VIOS to host both AIX and IBM i.  In
> the first generation, of the convergence, IBM I won't have any additional
> support for the hardware and will have to run on top of VIOS.  Since VIOS
> can attach to virtually everything, it makes sense to leverage this
> hardware investment, and not develop any additional hardware driver
> support for IBM i.   They said this will last for 2 years, at which time,
> IBM I will go away entirely, and AIX will be the only operating system
> left.
>
> I heard they were doing this for just one reason, which was to increase
> their market share of Power Systems as they compete against SUN/Orcale.
> With the new Oracle chip that has come out, they (IBM) are concerned not
> about the speed of the clip which IBM states they can firmly beat in all
> CPU testing, but they want to increase the number of AIX Licenses.   They
> figure, what better way than to merge their two primary operating systems
> into one, to increase the total.  Of course, we all know the huge amounts
> of revenue that IBM derives from IBM I, so it is a little surprising.  In
> addition, in a related announcement, Oracle had decided to withdraw it's
> named database, and replace all Oracle databases with IBM DB2, but wanted
> to make sure that all their customer's would have to download DB2 from
> Passport Disadvantage to complete the transition.   Also announced today,
> that IBM would be closing down all its manufacturing and support in
> China, and moving them back to Rochester wh
> ere they belong.  You can find out more details on all 3 stories by
> going to www.itechsol.com<http://www.itechsol.com>  .....
>
> Remember what day it is today.  :) Happy 4/1/2013.
>
>                Pete
>
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> Pete Massiello
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