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To Bill Woodcock, research director for the nonprofit Internet networking consultancy Packet Clearing House, having a unified interface across Apple's product line is a clear advantage. "Maintaining two operating systems [Solaris and Windows?] is a pain," he says. "We all know this. Sun won't give us what we want on a laptop. Apple clearly has the best laptops, so we're going to keep using them. Now we can use them with the same OS that's running on the server.

The best organized [Unix ports collection for Mac OS X] is the Fink Project (fink.sourceforge.net), which lets Mac OS X users download its growing library of precompiled Unix tools for Darwin nearly effortlessly, using package management tools ported from Debian Linux. Even many X Windows apps can now run natively on the Mac OS X desktop, thanks to a "rootless" port of XFree86.

I love Fink and XFree86 in the form of XDarwin (installable via fink). They're what lets Mac OS X be a seamless extension of Linux, NetBSD, et al., for me.

Apple's platform is beginning to win favor among developers, including some of the top enterprise software vendors. In a statement released earlier this year, Sybase vice president Dr. Raj Nathan said that his company is "committed to becoming the standard enterprise database running on Mac OS X."