14 engineers on Hacker News describe using AIX first-hand: 0 endorse it, 0 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“I remember doing this when we migrated from Windows 2000/2003 to AIX.”
neutral · production · kwanbix · 2026-09-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we had moved most customers off Solaris, HP-UX and AIX over to Linux out of cost optimizations”
neutral · production · LinuxBender · 2025-02-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we were running Netscape's iPlanet web server on an IBM JVM (on IBM's AIX)”
neutral · production · WeAddValue · 2023-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've used AIX, HP-UX, OEL (Oracle Enterprise Linux) and RHEL. We use it because there's a support contract”
neutral · production · csours · 2022-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We have many museum-grade Unices in production, mostly AIX and Solaris”
neutral · production · hrrsn · 2022-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we had a lot of PowerPC machines running AIX (we had an IBM SP/2 supercomputer cluster based on them)”
neutral · production · PaulHoule · 2022-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We were all using Solaris, HP-UX and Aix boxes when real money was at play.”
neutral · production · pjmlp · 2021-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Sun, hp and we opt for aix. Synapse/power build but we use oracle”
neutral · production · ngcc_hk · 2021-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Been logged into the odd BSD, AIX and HP-UX machine before.”
neutral · personal · doubled112 · 2021-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“until 2005 I only used Aix, HP-UX and Solaris in production.”
neutral · production · pjmlp · 2021-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“A few past lives ago, I used to work on the AIX kernel at IBM.”
neutral · production · ereyes01 · 2017-06-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Overall the biggest failing is IBM's lack of direction. They tend to push systems which generate the biggest kickback and such, usually meaning their AIX fare.”
neutral · production · Shivetya · 2015-07-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using unices for over 20 years now (first was ultrix, then truos, sunos, solaris, hpux, aix, linux, netbsd, freebsd, osx)”
neutral · production · 20 yr · GFK_of_xmaspast · 2014-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run AIX/Linux/HP UX/IBM TPF.”
neutral · production · joshbaptiste · 2013-08-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?