As I have a sysadmin background, I have many sysadmin friends. All but one (who works at an IBM distributor) have the problem, that they have difficulty to educate themselves in AIX. The main bottleneck is, that they can't practice enough, as they don't have access to machines. One week AIX courses are not enough to learn everything, and practicing on company servers with hundreds of concurrent users is not an option.

Here are some arguments, why AIX on Pegasos would be a good idea:

- a Pegasos is a machine, one can afford as a home computer or a second company machine. Even the cheapest AIX capable machines cost at least five times as much.

- a Pegasos has low noise and has low power requirements, unlike any of the original AIX machines.

- having AIX on an affordable desktop machine means that more people have good access to the OS, and have the possibility to educate themselves better in AIX -> more prepared sysadmins.

- if a sysadmin feels comfortable with an OS, he will try to influence purchasing decisions to be able to use such machines.

- Pegasos can also be used as a development machine for AIX, one does not need gigabytes of RAM and terrabytes of storage to develop or port software for AIX.

In summary: porting AIX to Pegasos and making it widely available would be beneficial both for IBM and for IBM's customers.

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