Furthermore, other forms of attack have been favored on particular platforms -- like Unix -- and there have been Unix viruses.
The new NT version of Sendmail, like its Unix counterpart, includes strong spam-blocking capabilities.
That software "glue" means that IBM can use its dominance in the mainframe arena to win x86 and Unix customers away from competitors like Hewlett-Packard, which recently declared that it sells more x86 servers than any other vendor, and Dell.
The designer, Edie Freedman, noticed that UNIX programs had these really weird names like sed and awk, which got her thinking of animals with odd names, like yaks, llamas and geckos.
PC-like servers running Windows are cheaper than Unix boxes.
This whole mobile OS thing is likely to shake out much like Windows vs. the world (Unix, DOS, OSX, Linux, etc.) With one dominating and the others relegated to a small number of die hard fans.
The Unix bedrock has also attracted more and more software developers to the Mac platform, like Scott Lopatin who wrote a new blogging tool called Sparkpod.
Open source has been used primarily in IT shops and especially on Unix platforms, where a number of necessary components are by tradition open source (things like file systems or graphical user interfaces).
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Of course the Mac was created in part as sort of a backlash against the command line interface of DOS (typing long strings of complicated computing commands, not pointing and clicking with a mouse like we're used to now), though Mac OS X now boasts a Unix Shell terminal with its own command line interface.
Sendmail's new NT 3.0 product provides NT administrators with security features, like header scanning, relay access control, and better defenses against theoretical attacks, to which Unix and Linux system administrators are already accustomed.
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