10.5. Unix Interoperability
Unix and Unix applications play an important role in many enterprise deployments. You only have to consider the dominant role that Apache web servers have on the Internet to understand why accommodating these servers and clients is an important characteristic of any server platform that desires to be the management platform for a heterogeneous network. To serve as the domain, name, identity, or address server in a large enterprise, it is essential to be able to provide these services to as many different operating systems as possible. If Microsoft doesn't provide these capabilities, then competitors such as Novell (who has a very strong eDirectory product) or Sun (which has a strong storage asset management position) ...
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