sorry guys, wrong continent.......

That is, if you had been firing a ballistic missile with the same accuracy as the article from timothy, you would have hit the wrong continent.....

;)

It has been pretty public (customer) knowledge that 5.2 would be running on power5. why ? because 5.2 is supported until late 2008, power5 saw the light in 2004. IBM is not an idiot, you can't have hardware that does not support your flagship unix for 4 years in a row.....

Same story with 5.3 supporting power6; that was known to pretty much every customer since the past 1.5 year or so.

5.3 support does not stop before 2010 or such.

timothy obviously is not a unix person, and certainly not to AIX.

IBM is listening to their customers. some 3-4 years ago, they simplified the support scheme / logics for AIX, which resulted in far less upgrades etc.

However, in practice it was a little "too simple"; one had to do release upgrades to get new hardware supported. That is now no longer necessary.

so indeed, the previous poster is absolutely right, they now found the middle ground somewhere, as requested by a number of customers, that IBM collaborates with in the context of the power/aix product.

And if you care to remember, AIX 4, now long time end of life, supported both MCA and PCI based systems, allthough at it's initial release all power systems were MCA based.

On top of that, you can run your 15 year old binaries unchanged on today's AIX, as long as we are not talking about device drivers and other fancy pieces of programming directly talking to specific hardware.

Now, try to install Solaris 8 on SPARC IV+; after that disappointing experience, Fujitsu/Siemens can help you out, because their SPARC does the job.