Meanwhile, Windows and Unix programmers had access to a host of popular application development tools, ranging from Visual Basic to Visual C.
It doesn't matter if you're running some flavor of Windows, UNIX, Mac OS X or Linux -- this isn't about OS wars.
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Observers also say there has been a perception that Net-Ware couldn't handle transactions as efficiently as Windows NT or Unix because it lacked pre-emptive processing.
Before, the company's Windows NT- and Unix-based data center and 100 users were at a separate Upper East Side site.
One is a rack system, PureFlex, designed for firms that want to roll their own applications to run on X86 or Power with operating systems from Windows to ZIX or Unix.
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PC-like servers running Windows are cheaper than Unix boxes.
Most of them are non-Windows operating systems such as Unix that they support on other platforms.
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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.
X3A Modular Computers operate at 18Watts of power and will run any x86-based Operating System, including Windows 8 and lower, Linux, UNIX, etc.
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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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But many companies, particularly those with Unix folk already on the payroll, have found that switching from Windows to Linux saves money.
PCs and servers can be ordered with the new operating system, which is claimed to combine the usual features of a fresh Windows product with the strength and stability of a good Unix system.
With the overwhelming presence of the Windows platforms taking off, O'Reilly has added new titles such as The Whole Internet for Windows 95, Inside The Windows Registry and just recently a series of "Windows Annoyances" (ie Windows Annoyances, Office Annoyances, Word Annoyances) plus a complement to its UNIX series of NT books focusing on security and administration.
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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