IBM: Linux is on Parity with AIX Unix

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Submission + - IBM: Linux is on Parity with AIX Unix (cioupdate.com)

Submitted by darthcamaro on Monday August 16, 2010 @09:18AM

darthcamaro writes: After a dozen years of pushing AIX as its premier mission critical operating system — a top IBM exec is now saying that there is little difference in features between AIX-Unix and Linux.
"Linux is on parity with AIX," Jean Staten Healy, IBM's director of worldwide Linux strategy told InternetNews.com. "Linux enables choice. I think that's one of the basic tenants of the faith."

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