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IBM First To Receive UNIX 2003 Certification
Hobart writes "Last Wednesday, IBM's AIX was the first to receive the UNIX 2003 certification from The Open Group, beating out Sun, HP, SCO and the rest. No mention anywhere in the branded products register of any Linux/BSD distribution, or Mac OS X. Are any companies still developing software to this certification, or requiring it?"
IBM is rivaling Microsoft's uncany knack for aligning their company with revelant dates.
IBM had to turn down the certification because they couldn't find the relevant code.
that this standard is called Unix 2003, and now (towards the end of 2004) there is exactly one system which is certified. Compare to the rest of the software world... :)
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Not exactly a selling point for either, eh?
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you know its a slow news day when the article starts with "Last Wednesday..." -jordan
Why did Darl McBride cross the road?
Because his code had been misappropriated into the chicken which was now on the other side.
No trees were harmed in the composition of this; however, numerous electrons were inconvenienced.
The curious thing about the argument regarding IBM is that it avoided the fact that many Americans are not fluent in English, and that IBM apparently must hire only the subset of Americans who are fluent in English. If they don't, and, in reality, they actually hire Americans with a broad spectrum of English proficiency, then the argument defending IBM is moot.
I've worked with Americans my whole life (being an in the USA and all), and, truly, many, if not a majority, of Americans act as if they had just learned their ABCs. It is quite depressing having to read problem reports or e-mails that look like they were written by second graders.
-- "Makes Little Debbie look like a pile of puke!" - Moe Szyslak
That SCO, the self purported "owners of the UNIX operating system," are behind IBM in meeting the latest UNIX standards.
I don't believe you are an American. Reason? Simple. Because you use commas and complex sentences. And, to make things worse, you do it correctly. (If I were to guess, I would say: United Kingdom. Am I right?) That's why I don't believe in a single word in you post. Sorry.
Now IBM's "lost AIX source code" makes sense: they actually pulled off, at the Unix Certification, the old fantasy of "the dog ate my homework"!
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make install -not war
...actually has got a C2 certification, with help from IBM. As such, the German distribution is the only one that can legally be used by the US DoD. Ok, so the invasion takes place 50 years later than planned. What's a bit of transatlantic lag?
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)