FSF and Linux can reasonably be ignored in this discussion but was there a time when Unix System Services (of z/OS or OS/390) was competitor to other platforms that claimed to be UNIX? How many third party apps were available / supported / marketed for USS as against AIX, HPUX or Solaris? How many of those were actually being run on USS? Certificate is fine on the wall but what actually does the job is more important.
mkk On Fri, 26 May 2023 15:40:34 +0200, Tony Harminc <t...@harminc.net> wrote: > >> To be contentious: nowadays nobody cares. Indeed, when we talk about >> non-Windows distributed system we usually think about Linux. Even POWER >> machines are more and more used for Linux workloads, not AIX. And the >> Linux is not UNIX certified. >> > >The only use I have found in many years for having z/OS UNIX certified is >so that when someone says they hear that z/OS has a "UNIX emulator" or any >one of many similar bogus claims, I can say "No, z/OS *is* UNIX. And BTW >Linux is *not* UNIX." (Of course the FSF would say, Gnu's Not Unix.)" > >Tony H. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
