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- Submitted-by: NU013809@VM1.NoDak.EDU (Greg Wettstein)
-
- I am aware of the fact that Linux is, I believe, POSIX.1 compliant. I
- also believe that the GNU utilities conform to various additional levels
- of POSIX.N compliancy. What I do not understand is who and or what is
- behind the drive for POSIX compliance. I know that the various levels
- of POSIX have been defined through the IEEE but little beyond that.
-
- What I need is a general pointer to material describing what POSIX is
- all about. The reason for this is that I am locked in a somewhat mortal
- political battle which may decide our ability to innovate. I have a
- network of Linux machines which are operating very efficiently in a
- mission critical application for our center. Unfortunately this
- approach runs counter to the 'true blues' in our computing resource
- department which want to replace everything we have done with an IBM
- proprietary DOS based networking system, sigh..... :-(
-
- I need to argue for our open system approach and thus need to become more
- well versed on the ins and outs of POSIX. I believe that the Feds have
- mandated that any systems vended for government contract need to meet
- a certain level of POSIX compliance.
-
- I would (deeply) appreciate any pointers that the denizens of the network
- could sling at me, e.g. reference articles, standards documents etc. that
- would allow me to explain and document what POSIX compliance means. It
- would be an extremely interesting coup to be able to 'legitimize' Linux
- in a commercial application such as ours. Thanks in advance for any
- help and/or information which may be forthcoming.
-
- As always,
- Dr. G.W. Wettstein
- Oncology Research Division Computing Facility
- Fargo Clinic / MeritCare
-
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- Volume-Number: Volume 30, Number 72
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