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To: ReignOfError

Except that Linux IS Unix. If it walks like a duck, etc. I think it would be more accurate to say that “licensed Unix” is declining, since Linux is nothing more than homebrewed Unix.


22 posted on 11/06/2010 8:27:09 AM PDT by DesScorp
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To: DesScorp
Except that Linux IS Unix. If it walks like a duck, etc. I think it would be more accurate to say that “licensed Unix” is declining, since Linux is nothing more than homebrewed Unix.

Certainly. The only reason to break out Linux/Unix in the reporting is because OS X Server is a sliver of the latter category. Solaris is the major, though fading fast, player. Does anyone use AIX any more?

23 posted on 11/06/2010 11:40:37 AM PDT by ReignOfError
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