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Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? (New York Times)Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? (New York Times)Posted Sep 25, 2008 20:43 UTC (Thu) by xaoc (guest, #54140)In reply to: Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? (New York Times) by salimma Parent article: Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? (New York Times)
'"The future is Linux and Microsoft Windows," says foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin. "It is not Unix or Solaris...'
That sentence sounds really awkward to me.
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Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? (New York Times) Posted Sep 25, 2008 22:28 UTC (Thu) by vmole (guest, #111) [Link] He's using the word "Unix" in its proprietary/licensed system meaning, as a code for all the various proprietary Unixes, like AIX, etc.
Unix is tradmarked Posted Sep 26, 2008 11:09 UTC (Fri) by alex (subscriber, #1355) [Link]
Unix is trademarked term for officially licensed operating systems. The correct term for Linux is that it is a broadly POSIX compliant operating system. The propriety Unix's are also POSIX operating systems. It's often corrupted when people refer to Unix-like systems.
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