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This is a old quote and IIRC was e.g. for the way AIX handles services (SRC / System Resource Controller) and stores configuration data (ODM / Object Data Manager). It felt 'alien' for admins used to use rc scripts (which are possible too) and files in /etc (used in aix too).

Now, nearly three decades later, we have even more automated and integrated mechanism 'systemd' and I think that there would be still features worth adopting from AIX. Not the first time i have such thoughts with an OS slowly vanishing.