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October 22, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan
Doug Mewmaw’s article about his experiences while visiting a System p technical conference while being a hard-core System i guy not only shows what two different worlds the AIX and i5/OS platforms inhabit, but how the differing cultures behind the platforms and the expectations of programmers and administrators in these two environments link to each other in their respective AIX and i5/OS stacks to create radically different operating system platforms that now share a single hardware platform. It is a bit like having one brain, but two minds. Which, if you ask me, explains some of the crazy things IBM |