I was reading the computerworld.co.nz this morning when a story seems familiar:
Unix-to-Linux migration not always needed: users
Many continue to be well-served by the older OS
By Robert L Mitchell Framingham | Monday, 2 February, 2009Migrating business applications from high-end Unix-based systems such as Sparc/Solaris to commodity x86/Linux platforms has been a popular idea for the past few years, but not everyone thinks going full-on with Linux is the best solution — at least not yet. [rest]
in fact it appears to be a world for world copy of this article from two months ago:
Unix to Linux migration not always worth it
Some organisations are bucking the trend, thanks to Unix advances
By Robert L Mitchell Framingham Monday, 1 December, 2008Migrating from high-end Unix-based systems to commodity x86/Linux platforms has been a popular idea for the last few years. But it turns out that not everyone thinks going full-on with Linux is the best solution — at least not yet. [rest]
Looking into it further the original on computerworld.com appears to be recycled as well:
- Enterprise Linux? Not so fast – January 19, 2009
- Replacing high-end Unix with enterprise Linux? Not so fast – November 24, 2008
I had a look around but couldn’t see any other examples. I wonder if Bob Mitchell got paid for both of them?
