Armonk, NY - Jan 20, 2006 - Today IBM celebrates the 20th Anniversary of the AIX operating system
and its role in leading IBM into the systems generation of computing. As IBM’s strategic platform for UNIX innovation, AIX
remains at the heart of IBM's ability to virtualize everything, commit to openness and collaborate to innovate. AIX has made
extraordinary contributions to the UNIX community and continues its reputation with industry firsts and technology
breakthroughs.
“We are pleased to celebrate 20 years of innovation on AIX and expect that the opening of the AIX Collaboration Center will
continue AIX's leadership momentum in the marketplace,” said Satya Sharma, IBM Distinguished Engineer and chief AIX
architect “This milestone for AIX illustrates IBM’s ongoing commitment to continue to lead the market and work with
clients, partners, independent software vendors (ISVs) and the broader UNIX community to create innovative technologies.”
Introduced in January, 1986, AIX was the catalyst for leading IBM into the world of open systems and standards such as UNIX,
TCP/IP and the Ethernet. From 1990 to 1994, AIX brought operating system excellence to leading edge hardware technology. AIX
expanded from a technical workstation platform to a true server operating system. Concurrently, IBM unveiled the POWER
microprocessor architecture and combined with AIX, created the first RISC 6000 systems, or RS/6000 as they were later
called. This breakthrough system platform was used to launch ibm.com and many other web sites.
From 1995 to 2000, AIX began to focus on commercial and technical application workloads, delivering symmetric
multiprocessing and high end scalability. IBM's high performance computing leadership emerged from high availability systems
such as Deep Blue and high powered clustered systems running AIX. With the release of AIX 5L in 2001, IBM began a period of
major innovation in system partitioning. Logical partitioning, dynamic logical partitioning, and micropartitioning with
virtualization were all enabled through AIX and delivered new levels of system flexibility and utilization.
Signalling it's ongoing commitment to AIX, IBM announced the opening of the AIX Collaboration Center (ACC) in December,
2005. Through a two-year, $200 million investment, IBM will use the center based in Austin, Texas to collaborate with
customers, developers, ISVs, and academics to drive innovation around AIX technology; and to develop, test and adopt new
applications and middleware for the AIX operating system.
The AIX Collaboration Center will focus on driving systems-level innovations around key technology areas like
virtualization, security, performance and scalability, and will assist ISVs in advancing their applications on AIX by
exploiting new IBM hardware and software capabilities. It will offer a wide range of resources including education,
equipment, access to skilled technical consultants and remote or onsite testing capabilities to help enable their
applications for AIX and the latest 64-bit POWER systems.
According to IDC, IBM has increased its UNIX revenue share to 31.8% and in Q205, was the number one UNIX server vendor based
on revenue share, compared to Sun and HP.1
About IBM
IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate.
Drawing on resources from across IBM and IBM Business Partners, IBM offers a wide range of services, solutions and
technologies that enable customers, large and small, to take full advantage of the new era of e-business. For more
information about IBM, visit http://www.ibm.com.
1 IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, 2Q05, issued on August 25, 2005.
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