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To: George W Daly, Jr. who wrote (4297)	11/30/1998 2:48:00 PM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 8218

George - Thanks for the update. The folks I was working with were involved in clustering, not OS development. Their team was gradually dismantled - I'm sure you know the details better than I do, but I can't see how their jobs were related to manufacturing, although some of them were given the option to go to Minnesota. As I said to Toy on the other thread, the 'replace AIX' discussion was outside of work over beers, and the folks I was talking to were perhaps somewhat disgruntled, given the change in their employment status. I have had no discussions with IBM management on this topic in a business context, and frankly no hints pro or con. But I have had a number of conversations over the last year or so with people in various IBM development organizations where the future OS strategy seemed up in the air, especially AIX. From an external perspective, HP has the inside track on Merced Unix, and Intel is working to get Solaris to be the other mainstream choice. CPQ will be pushing hard with Alpha based Unix, which has the advantage that it has always been 64 bit. Given that only 2 or maybe 3 Unix variants can get critical mass, it's hard for me to see the long term play for AIX. I also would suspect that the technologists actually working on the products would be the very last to know about a change in direction.