By The Open Group
The Open Group, an international vendor- and technology-neutral consortium, has announced that Apple, Inc. has achieved UNIX® certification for its latest operating system – Mac OS X version 10.11 known as “El Capitan.”
El Capitan was announced on September 29, 2015 following it being registered as conforming to The Open Group UNIX® 03 standard on the September 7, 2015.
The UNIX® trademark is owned and managed by The Open Group, with the trademark licensed exclusively to identify operating systems that have passed the tests identifying that they conform to The Single UNIX Specification, a standard of The Open Group. UNIX certified operating systems are trusted for mission critical applications because they are powerful and robust, they have a small footprint and are inherently more secure and more stable than the alternatives.
Mac OS X is the most widely used UNIX desktop operating system. Apple’s installed base is now over 80 million users. It’s commitment to the UNIX standard as a platform enables wide portability of applications between compliant and compatible operating systems.