Gartner: No New Unix Apps to Emerge After 2009
This was a really strange post - to the extent that I really want to comment on it.
What is the definition of Unix? As far as most of the world is conserned, there is no such thing? You have HP-UX, I don't see that going away that soon. Then you have AIX which will probably stay with us for some years. Solaris, Irix, and probably a few more - some are quite dead, others live. If you make an app for any if these, wouldn't that be a unix application.
More important, you have MacOSX which is very much Unix. And you have all the freenixes, including Linux. For all practical purposes, you make an Unix app when you create anything for one of these platforms. I know that there are certain archaic rules that must be fullfilled before an operating system can get the label Unix, but when it comes to the applications, these days it usually only takes a recompile to get your app on one of those if you program with portability in mind.
Ah, enough. The original writer probably live in a Microsoft world and don't have a clue. It's Gartner after all. And I just wanted to write something tonight...
1 comment:
Hello Åsmund!
According to Opengroup, macos is now officially unix (as of may 2007), read: http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3555.htm for details.
Thought i would give you this heads up and my regards;-)
-Helge
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