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"Commercial Unix" was a defacto phrase used by places like Gartner and IDG that meant the crop of things like AIX, HPUX, Solaris, and so on. It always excluded
by tyingq 4y ago
"Commercial Unix" was a defacto phrase used by places like Gartner and IDG that meant the crop of things like AIX, HPUX, Solaris, and so on. It always excluded Linux and MacOS.
Google for phrases like "idg unix shipments solaris" and you'll see some of the context from that time period.
- jbverschoor 4y agoMacOS X was paid software until about 10 years ago
- the_why_of_y 4y agoIt still is. It's just bundled with the hardware, and always has been. What changed is that upgrades used to cost money, and now don't. You know it's an upgrade because you aren't allowed to install it on anything that didn't ship with MacOS X out of the factory.
- IncRnd 4y agoTaken in combination, the two words "Commercial Unix" historically refer to Unix from Sun Microsystems, HP, IBM or SGI. They are not a reference to all variants of Unix that are sold.
- tyingq 4y agoI'm not saying it's a technically correct term, just what it did historically mean.