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Unix helps Apple’s biotech marketshare

A Boston Globe article describes Apple’s growth in the biotech industry, due to the Unix underpinnings of Mac OS X. The article quotes many scientists and engineers who have switched to Apple workstations or have immediate plans to do so. Craig Hunter, an aerospace engineer at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia, said “OS X, I think, is the best Unix I’ve seen come along, ever.” Hunter and nine of his colleagues are replacing their Silicon Graphics workstations with Apple XServes.

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