Linked by David Adams on Wed 1st Aug 2007 06:24 UTC, submitted by Tyr.
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. Only Sun, IBM & HP are certified so OS X turns the Big Three to Big Four.
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> I don't know but perhaps you have to pay for each architecture and as the futur of Mac OS X is Intel, they do not want to pay twice.
peanuts - take a look at the rather low fees: http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/Brandfees.htm
only $ 110.000 per year (if apple manages to sell more than 30.000 servers). but as they pay according to units sold, and don't sell any ppc-servers anymore, they probably can't license ppc-osx. of course, as all units of osx-server are universal, they could also pay the fee twice. but i imagine steve would feel ripped of.
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I wonder why the certification was issued only for the Intel version of Leopard. Aren't they generally the same (at least, standards-wise)?
http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/apple.htm