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Where is UNIX still relevant?

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jhu

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Having never worked in the industry, does anyone know where UNIX certified product is necessary? What exactly does OS gain from getting UNIX certification nowadays?
 
I think The Open Group still has it, but their "recent" news is from '07 about OS X which is mildly entertaining considering how "unopen" Apple is.

I don't think anyone really cares about the UNIX trademark since RedHat doesn't have it and is having virtually no problems replacing legacy Solaris, Tru64, HPUX, etc installations.
 
ultimatebob said:
Believe it or not, AIX is still big in some Fortune 500 countries that can afford the license and support fees.
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But does AIX being a certified UNIX play a part in this or is it just because of IBM's reputation? If IBM stopped certifying their OSes as UNIX, wouldn't they still get the same contracts?
 
jhu said:
But does AIX being a certified UNIX play a part in this or is it just because of IBM's reputation? If IBM stopped certifying their OSes as UNIX, wouldn't they still get the same contracts?
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The latter of course, if anyone writes a set of requirements that lists "certified UNIX" they're trying to stack the requirements in the favor of a specific vendor. Although at this point I'm not sure who that would be since I'm not even sure who has actual UNIX certified OSes.
 
Nothinman said:
The latter of course, if anyone writes a set of requirements that lists "certified UNIX" they're trying to stack the requirements in the favor of a specific vendor. Although at this point I'm not sure who that would be since I'm not even sure who has actual UNIX certified OSes.
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That would be IBM, HP, and Apple and probably a few more.
 
jhu said:
That would be IBM, HP, and Apple and probably a few more.
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But have they kept up with it? I believe you have to certify each release of your OS and at this point that would seem like a waste of effort on their part.
 
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