I'd
give you TWO years, not ten. The problem is that AIX is twice
that many years behind Solaris in terms of manageability and lack-of-
cruftiness, with no reasonable OS alternatives for the godlike
hardware.
AIX Isn't uniX. Really, AIX is a legacy OS. IBM doesn't seem to be
really putting any significant resources into advancing it.
When you say "advancing it," though, what kind of stuff would you like
them to be doing?
On server-grade OSes, at some point you cover all the basics. There's
no dancing babies to be had in smit.
Myself, I've decided I'll be getting a brand new IBM server next year
for my home network. Natch, it'll be running AIX, not Linux, so I can
use all the RS/6000 and Apple Network Server software and such I've
accumulated over the years.
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