I heard rumors that ..........

[Sam Drake]

Nonsense.  IBM just introduced a major new line of computers,
the RISC System/6000, that ONLY run AIX.  To "dump" AIX/UNIX
would mean to abandon the hundreds of millions of dollars that
went into developing that product, without any payback.  To do
as you suggest makes no business sense whatsoever.  IBM executives
have publically stated that AIX is one of IBM's two strategic 
platforms.


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