That's why most non-Intel hardware vendors originally chose Unix for their default operating system.
Evan has been involved with Unix for many years, and with Linux since 1995.
Sun depends on its own version of Unix for much of its revenue, and until last year was a critic of Linux.
The same clients who are purchasing NT-based servers for some client and application servers are sticking with Unix for business-critical applications, Yeates said.
Although O'Reilly concentrated mainly on the UNIX market for years, the rise of Internet has shot such titles as Learning Perl and Programming Perl to cult status.
This also menas that the games are going to need adaptation for various controllers, even for the promised PC, Mac and Unix versions after the opening PSN launch scheduled for Fall 2013.
The software's Unix core makes it easy for Apple to cram stripped down versions of the software onto mobile phones and home entertainment gadgets, such as Apple TV.
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.
"We've been focusing on Digital customers for the last three years, and certainly in the last nine months our activity has picked up, " says Les Wilson, systems marketing manager for HP's Unix business.
By using its mainframe business to leverage customers into buying IBM's x86 and Unix servers, IBM may be asking for more trouble from the Feds.
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.
With OS X, Apple has a base of stable, Unix-based code, making it easy for Apple to plop down small improvements on a regular basis.
That shouldn't be hard, since Mac OS X itself is based on Unix, assuming there are appropriate drivers available for the Firewire connection on those operating systems.
The chip is designed for high-end servers running the Unix operating system and has been launched with a new server designed around it.
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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Also for large businesses, the old Mac OS was simply not UNIX file structure friendly and made it difficult to integrate into their business network.
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Apple should also consider including support for the open-source Linux operating system, as well as Unix variants.
Features include name-and-password log-in support, file and directory caching for quick access, firewall and proxy-server support, and UNIX file attribute support.
Similarly, while Apple's OS X's user interface is not just easy to use but engaging, it's just a candy shell built around the kind of tried-and-true Unix software that's powered everything from phone networks to computer science labs for a generation.
In fact, the MTA that forms the core of Sendmail for NT is the same as the open source MTA currently used in Unix versions of the product.
He also said that a specific type of intellectual property cited in the suit, the so-called "shared libraries" used in the operation of Unix, was "one of seven or eight" different types of IP which SCO is investigating for IP violations by Linux developers.
As for non-Intel hardware, vendors can enjoy the benefit they once had with the original Unix.
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