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Honestly, I think anyone asking for HP-UX or AIX "because it's UNIX" should have retired at least a decade ago.

Similarly, anyone naive enough to believe that "Any skills, staff, source code, infrastructure, and solutions you invest in any Unix are portable across IBM, Sun, Fujitsu, HP, Apple, and generic 32- and 64-bit x86 hardware." really shouldn't be placed in a position where they have any say over platform choice.

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> Honestly, I think anyone asking for HP-UX or AIX "because it's UNIX" should have retired at least a decade ago.

Me too. I did wonder if this was written in the 1990s, but it was actually written this year. It's silly and clueless.

I think the audience for the article is pointy haired managers.

And the language they understand sound exactly like the language we understand but is in fact not the same thing at all!

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