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Tom Smith has written an article titled IBM’s Linux Push Shows AIX Is No Sacred Cow. It’s on line now at The Open Enterprise.

IBM is able to aggressively back Linux, AIX and Windows because it doesn’t face the same religious issues that Microsoft does with Windows or that Sun does with Solaris. Microsoft has undertaken various efforts to undermine Linux, while Sun has opened up somewhat to Linux, though it positions the OS in a very different, lower-end category than its Solaris version of Unix.

The different approaches don’t end there. IBM officials put a whole different spin on the operating system than those companies that have an enormous commitment to their OS. IBM describes operating systems as carrying little more value than plumbing or infrastructure, asserting that IT organizations and big enterprises really don’t want to deal with operating systems anyway.