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Each year several hundred thousand RISC/UNIX platforms are migrated to Linux, Windows, another UNIX system or a different platform. More than 80 percent of the migrated systems are moved to Linux or Windows with most of the remainder moving to another RISC/UNIX platform.

For the past 15 years and longer, RISC/UNIX* platforms, such as AIX* on POWER*, HP-UX* on PA-RISC and Solaris* on SPARC*, have established a history of solid reliability in the data center. RISC/UNIX typically runs mission-critical applications, including back-end databases, and has a reputation for good performance, high reliability, proven scalability and trustworthy security. But these benefits come at a high total cost of ownership (TCO). RISC/UNIX generally requires
expensive proprietary software and hardware as well as budget-draining annual maintenance costs. These expenses are a key factor in recent, widespread migrations to other platforms, specifically Linux*.

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The Data Center Enablement Team