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.

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

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

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:21:07 -0600, Oxford wrote:

So what? Why tell us in COLA? We don't care.

Oxford wrote:

In article tiscali.co.uk>,
Kier tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

Because OS X is Unix based.

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:46:38 -0500, Jim Lee Jr. wrote:

Yes? So? What does that have to do with Linux?

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:21:07 -0600, Oxford wrote:

(snip)
I didn't see Linux mentioned in the article.

Ian Hilliard hilliardtech.com> wrote:

There isn't much of any Microsoft marketing power left. Bill Gates is
leaving the company next summer so Microsoft is basically a dead end.

Sure, it still holds sway amongst some ignorant / ill-informed IT
departments... but OSX Server is going to be the new standard for
businesses worldwide in the 10-20 year timeframe so it's quite exciting
to see that Apple's OSX Leopard is now fully UNIX 03 certified.

Just think about what this power will bring to the world... finally!

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

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In article <13av9lhmn493v0e@news.supernews.com>, Rick nomail.com>
wrote:

Because Linux is derived from Unix.

In comp.os.linux.advocacy Ian Hilliard hilliardtech.com> says: