Posix/Unix Standards: Foundation for 21st Century Growth

J Isaak, and L Johnson

1/01/2005
(Original Publish Date: 1998)

Posix standards represent approximately $80 billion of the $250+ billion-Unix market over the last decade; they also provide the basis for significant growth in the future. This picture of the substantial success of Posix standards (and the business impact of standards in general) differs from that presented in Micro's May/June 1998 issue. The overall Unix market boasts billions of dollars in revenues, and is projected to continue growing into the future. Major areas for this growth feature high-end systems (data warehousing, servers, and supercomputing) rather than desktop applications