Does Unix Still Exist?
Contents “No One Markets Unix Any More, It’s Kind of a Dead Term. It’s Still Around, It’s Just Not Built Around Anyone’s Strategy for High-End Innovation. …...
“No one markets Unix any more, it’s kind of a dead term. It’s still around, it’s just not built around anyone’s strategy for high-end innovation. … Most applications on Unix that can be easily ported to Linux or Windows have actually already been moved.”
Is UNIX still used today?
Yet despite the fact that the alleged decline of UNIX keeps coming up, it’s still breathing. It’s still widely used in enterprise data centers. It’s still running huge, complex, key applications for companies that absolutely, positively need those apps to run.
Is UNIX dead?
That’s right. Unix is dead. We all collectively killed it the moment we started hyperscaling and blitzscaling and more importantly moved to the cloud. You see back in the 90s we still had to vertically scale our servers.
Alexander Ross has covered the video game industry for a decade, writing deep dives on game design, esports tournaments, VR developments, and gaming culture.
