[dtrace-discuss] DTrace on AIX

[Derek E. Lewis]

On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, James Dickens wrote:

> given IBM's a major contributor to the systemtap project, I don't see
> them porting DTrace. They really do think that they are going to make
> systemtap into something as usable as dtrace.

It does good to think of IBM as a two-headed beast, each with separate 
agendas. There's the Open Source/Linux agenda, and there's the agenda that 
relates firmly to mainframes, UNIX, etc. Sometimes these two agendas 
collide and you see something AIX 5L's "Linux affinity", which enables you 
to run applications built on Linux in AIX without any sort of emulation. 
This sort of collaboration rarely happens and when it does, it'll have 
little market effect. As Systemtap is part of IBM's Open Source/Linux 
agenda, I wouldn't put my money on them ever *considering* to port it to 
their enterprise UNIX, AIX.