Mary, <What percentage of their current (inhouse) applications run on Unix OS and IBM mainframes? ... Can you give us some insights as to hardware they use currently and planned?>
I'm not sure about the entire corporation, but for IAG, we used to use AIX, then later, HP-UX for our engineering applications. About a year or two ago, we have made a massive transition to Intel-based machines running Linux. This decision was facilitated by a few Willamette (Pentium 4) engineers who ported some of their work onto Linux back then. Their success made upper management see the enormous cost advantage of "eating our own dogfood." (Ironic how they needed convincing themselves, but it's all good in the end.)
The computers on our desktops are, of course, Intel-based and running Win2K. We access our UNIX computers through our desktops using an application called Exceed.
By the way, our division will soon be getting sixty dual Pentium 4 workstations at 1.7 GHz, each with 2 GB of RDRAM and running Linux. These machines should prove to be much stronger performers than our current Pentium III and HP-UX workstations, yet cost much less than any RISC solution.
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