Linux continues to gain market share, but not at Windows' expense. Despite current perceptions, Linux is actually more of a threat to its progenitor, Unix.

Unix: A stable but consolidating market A sampling of Gartner server shipment numbers does show Unix trailing Linux and Windows Server, as the chart below shows.

Think Windows has the worst security track record? Aberdeen Group says CERT reports show Linux and Unix systems are just as vulnerable.

Most notably, the Windows NT family introduced the concept of network domains . In UNIX systems, network administrators typically synchronized user accounts between machines manually.

The pipeline concept, invented by Bell Labs’ McIlroy, was subsequently copied by many operating systems, including all the Unix variants, Linux, DOS and Windows.

Microsoft’s Services for Unix 3.5 (SFU 3.5) helps bridge the gap between Windows and Unix/Linux by “fooling” Unix/Linux systems into thinking they’re just another NIS server. SFU can also ...

Product Reviews Integrating Windows and Unix Accounts Vintela eases integration by replacing NIS with AD. By Jeremy Moskowitz 06/01/2004 Microsoft’s Services for Unix 3.5 (SFU 3.5) helps bridge the ...