Operating Systems of the Internet

Operating Systems of the Internet

Everyone working on computers is probably aware of the fact that computers need to have an operating system to run all of the different applications that they may use. Most regular home users are more than likely using an operating system such as Microsoft's Windows, or possibly an open source operating system such as Linux. With an awareness of this, most are probably not aware of the many types of operating systems in use throughout the computers in use around the world.

In this document, the operating systems of the Internet will be our focus. There are many different operating systems. Some of the operating systems in use on the Internet are Apache, AOLserver, and Oracle. This is just a few that may be familiar, or at least the company name may stand out. To give one an idea as per a Wikipedia entry under the heading of "Apache HTTP server," there are more than 25 operating systems listed as operating systems of the Internet.

This document will identify the most common of the Internet operating systems. It will also take a more in-depth look at these systems.

Internet OSs

As stated earlier, there are many operating systems now in use on the Internet. Of these operating systems the majority of them are open source programs. There are approximately five that are proprietary software developed by companies such as Microsoft, IBM, and Sun Microsystems. The first Internet operating system will be Sun Solaris.

Sun Solaris

Version 8 of the Sun Solaris operating system is available for both Intel and SPARC hardware. Many believe that Solaris was going to be prominent in the future of Internet operating systems. Solaris after testing it with the SPARC hardware proved to have more availability and security than what was being offered by Windows. This was making users believe that Solaris is and operating system and as Steve Jefferson stated, "Solaris is the future."

Followers of the Solaris software knew that Solaris could not compete with Windows in a workgroup setting. They knew however, that Solaris, serving web applications with Oracle as its data store was an excellent