Apple’s Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard’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,” Tom Yager reports for InfoWorld.
“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,” Yager reports.
Full article here.
>>”Interestingly, the certificate only covers Leopard on Intel-based computers.”
Yes, that is noteworthy. Not that I am overly concerned about day-to-day operations on my PPC machine. If Leopard runs on it (and it will), then I am fine – certification or not – it really won’t affect me. Still an interesting point though…
“I will name my first born Unix”
what if it is a girl? would you name her Vista?
Linux is a cool name too.