<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Nursie</author><text>IBM over the last two decades really seems to be a story of managed decline.&lt;p&gt;Its proprietary systems were riding high in the 90s (even if market-share wasn&amp;#x27;t the absolute largest, their &amp;quot;Big Iron&amp;quot; had a good reputation amongst &amp;#x27;serious&amp;#x27; IT folks), but were superseded by linux and commodity hardware at some point in the 00s. They sold off the thinkpad business as non-core, and they sold off their commodity server business (x-series) at some point too.&lt;p&gt;Both hardware and software solutions have been de-emphasised in favour of &amp;#x27;services&amp;#x27;, and while that&amp;#x27;s fine in a business sense, it&amp;#x27;s so sad from the perspective of all that big blue has done for our industry over the years.&lt;p&gt;Yes, they now own RedHat, but large acquisitions are part of this story. Each one stems the decline for a while, but cost-cutting and streamlining inside big blue eventually manages the new addition into a shadow of its former self. Maybe this one will be different ... I hope so.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>IBM shifts remaining US-based AIX dev jobs to India – source</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/12/ibm_aix_developer_jobs/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hlandau</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s worth noting that IBM i has a kind of dependency on AIX. IBM i has an AIX binary compatibility environment called AIX. Think of it like WSL, but for AIX binaries and on IBM i. Of course if they created this compatibility layer today they&amp;#x27;d probably choose to make it compatible with Linux rather than AIX, but they chose AIX and now they&amp;#x27;re stuck with it.&lt;p&gt;This means AIX, or at least the AIX ABIs as supported by IBM i, has to be kept alive for as long as IBM i is alive. So either this bodes badly for IBM i or they consider the amount of ongoing maintenance that PASE needs to be so small it can be handled on an ongoing basis by the i or the new skeleton AIX team. I suspect the latter rather than them canning IBM i though.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>IBM shifts remaining US-based AIX dev jobs to India – source</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/12/ibm_aix_developer_jobs/</url></story>