MS Windows Services for UNIX 3.0

MS Windows Services for UNIX 3.0 ... And now that the Interix subsystem technology is built in, Windows Services for UNIX 3.0 provides platform interoperability and application migration components in one fully integrated and supported product from Microsoft. With Windows Services for UNIX 3.0, you can optimize existing investments in UNIX infrastructure and applications while capitalizing on Windows innovation. Windows Services for UNIX 3.0 lowers total cost of ownership by enabling you to consolidate diverse platforms rapidly.

The key difference between Windows Services for UNIX 2.0 and 3.0 is that now Microsoft Interix is fully integrated into Windows Services for UNIX 3.0. The Interix subsystem technology provides a universal environment in which to run both Windows and UNIX applications on a single system. That means you can reduce development time while leveraging existing employee skills sets. The Interix technology provides a UNIX environment that runs on top the Windows kernel, enabling UNIX application and scripts to run natively on the Windows platform alongside Windows applications. With this capability, you can continue to get value out of your UNIX scripts and applications - simply reuse them on Windows. Windows Services for UNIX 3.0 also includes more than 300 UNIX utilities and tools that behave exactly as they would on UNIX systems, plus a software development kit (SDK) that supports over 1900 UNIX APIs and migration tools such as make, rcs, yacc, lex, cc, c89, nm, strip, gbd, as well as the gcc, g++, and g77 compilers.