OSX 10.5 gets UNIX 03 Certification

External Since: May 01, 2007 Posts: 37

Congrats Everyone!

OSX 10.5 coming out in October gets approval from the Open Group!

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OS X's commercial credentials recently got a major boost from the Open
Group. Thanks to the efforts of Apple's OS boss Kevin Van Vechten and
his team, Leopard has cleared all of the hurdles required to attain UNIX
03 certification. That places Apple in elite company. Only Sun, IBM and
HP are certified, so OS X turns the Big Three into the Big Four.

Here's Apple's Open Group brand certificate, which entitles Apple to use
the UNIX brand. I suggest printing this on high rag content paper,
framing it and hanging it in your server room or your Mac-graced
cubicle. There are UNIX pretenders, and there is the real thing. Mac
users, realize that qualifying for UNIX is no small feat, especially for
an open source, BSD-based OS. The Open Group standards, the PDFs for
which are idiotically marked as free but blocked from PDF download
unless you buy your way into a membership, are rooted in System V. Apple
is to be commended.

The UNIX 03 specifications cover libraries, system calls, terminal
interfaces, commands and utilities, internationalization and the C
language. That's the whole enchilada for ISVs (independent software
vendors) porting their server and non-GUI applications to OS X. UNIX
ISVs ought to climb on board, because once Leopard ships in October I
expect Xserve sales to take a leap. Software developers should also keep
in mind that the Leopard client OS is the same as Apple's server, minus
the quite exceptional administrative tools, and the installed base of
four and eight-core Mac Pro desktop/workstations is even larger.

A bit More Here:

http://snipurl.com/1p047

or

http://weblog.infoworld.com/enterprisemac/archives/2007/07/leopard_gets_u
n.html

Congrats Everyone, now the World's Most Popular Unix based OS, is
Certified by the OPEN GROUP.

http://www.opengroup.org/

Learn more about the upcoming high powered server here:

http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/leopard/

Learn more about the upcoming client here:

http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/

And highest performing Unix hardware for the price here:

http://www.apple.com/xserve/

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External Since: May 09, 2007 Posts: 57

"Oxford" <colalovesmacs DeleteThis @mac.com> stated in post
colalovesmacs-82A669.13210731072007 DeleteThis @mpls-nnrp-03.inet.qwest.net on 7/31/07
12:21 PM:

> Congrats Everyone!
>
> OSX 10.5 coming out in October gets approval from the Open Group!
>
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>
> OS X's commercial credentials recently got a major boost from the Open
> Group. Thanks to the efforts of Apple's OS boss Kevin Van Vechten and
> his team, Leopard has cleared all of the hurdles required to attain UNIX
> 03 certification. That places Apple in elite company. Only Sun, IBM and
> HP are certified, so OS X turns the Big Three into the Big Four.

I bet there are still those in CSMA who will claim that OS X is not as
Unix-like as is Linux. Smile

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