The chip is designed for high-end servers running the Unix operating system and has been launched with a new server designed around it.

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DEC's high-end workstations and the servers that use its blazingly fast Alpha 64-bit microprocessor and run on the Unix operating system open up new markets for Compaq.

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That's in contrast to mainframe applications, or even versions of the "open" Unix operating system that were specific to a given computer manufacturer's hardware.

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Those on the front lines of networking, such as the telcos, Internet service providers, competitive local exchange companies and wireless operators, still prefer time-tested Unix as the operating system for networks. (Prediction: Cisco and Lucent may become the biggest threats to Microsoft over the next five years.) n Thanks to the Internet, small niche companies can reach mass markets in a heartbeat.

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Jonathan Broskey, a former Apple employee who now heads the Army's Apple program, argues that the Unix core at the center of the Mac OS operating system makes it easier to lock down a Mac than a Windows platform.

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The growth of the free operating system, Linux, is leading all the big Unix vendors to revise their pricing.

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Even OS X, the Mac's newest operating system, is based on a Unix computing approach only now hitting mainstream PC users through the migration of Linux to the desktop.

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Linux is an open source operating system developed by independent and corporate programmers worldwide which has much of the functionality of the powerful Unix system.

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Apple should also consider including support for the open-source Linux operating system, as well as Unix variants.

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Later this year, IBM will deliver the zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension with support for IBM POWER7 blades running AIX, IBM's UNIX operating system.

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Designed to be used as a standalone machine or in clustered configurations, the X7A will run any x86-based Operating System, including Windows 8 and lower, Linux, UNIX, etc.

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