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IDC Shows Sales of All Servers Growing; Except Unix

Linked by David Adams on Thu 3rd Mar 2011 20:23 UTC, submitted by Amy Bennett

IDC's newest survey of server vendors shows boxes running every kind of operating system -- except Unix -- sold more during the last three months of 2010. Sales of Linux servers rose 29 percent; Windows rose 16.8 percent, but most surprisingly, sales of mainframes shot up 69 percent �" the highest growth rate IDC ever found on mainframes.

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RE: OSX UNIX

by lemur2 on Fri 4th Mar 2011 08:56 UTC in reply to "OSX UNIX"

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2007-02-17

OSX is UNIX.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2007/08/mac-os-x-leopard-receives...

http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/certificates/1190p.pdf

Agreed, OSX is derived from BSD Unix.

However the Android kernel is Linux, and that is not derived from any Unix code at all.

Besides, neither OSX, nor iOS, nor Android are server OSes.

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RE[2]: OSX UNIX

by saynte on Fri 4th Mar 2011 09:35 in reply to "RE: OSX UNIX"

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2007-12-10

Mac OS X is a server operating system, it is used and shipped on Apple's Xserve rack-units.

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RE[3]: OSX UNIX

by lemur2 on Fri 4th Mar 2011 09:51 in reply to "RE[2]: OSX UNIX"

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Mac OS X is a server operating system, it is used and shipped on Apple's Xserve rack-units.

... which have such a small share they make impact on the numbers.

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