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December 14, 2009
Unix as a platform for DI is fading quickly
I am spending significant time and effort right now talking to our customers, partners, and prospects about their computing needs for 2010 and beyond. One of the questions I ask them in my surveys is how important Unix is for running their data integration applications. And what I am hearing loud and clear is that most current Unix shops already have or are planning to move to Linux during 2010.
As you would expect, they are planning to transition away from Unix for a variety of reasons, most of which have to do with hardware licensing and maintenance costs, in addition to the fact that Linux servers are now being offered by all major hardware vendors. And the wide choice of Linux offerings gives companies plenty of options to choose the best price/performance platform for their data processing needs.
This is good news for innovative data integration vendors like expressor who prefer to use their engineering resources for new feature development rather than in support of obsolete hardware platforms. Our product strategy for 2010 is to continue to support expressor on Sun Solaris and IBM AIX platforms - but we strongly encourage our customers and prospects to move to Linux during that timeframe.
- Michael Waclawiczek, VP marketing
Posted by expressor software at December 14, 2009 10:15 AM
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