I am a MAC user evaluating electronic medical record software. I found a package which is UNIX server based. Can anyone tell me if MAC OS X can be used in this situation. The software is nexgen (www.nexgen.com).
How UNIX "compatible" is MAC OS X?
I apologize for my very limited UNIX knowledge.
Thanks
Yes you can use unix base apps in mac os X. Mac os X is based off of bsd 4.5 and the update 10.2 is based off of bsd 5.0
Mac os x is in a nut shell is unix but with out bash you can use any unix apps in os X if you need gui apps goto www.apple.com goto the mac os x download place and get bash
or get X11 for os 10.2 that will let you run native true unix apps and linux apps in os X or you can run every thing from the shell or in X is called termial
there is also a project called fink which aims to make available complete unix tools to osx users. i dont know off hand the address of the fink website, so search google, you will find it there.
Bash shell from what I know is available (built-in) but OS X doesn't use Bash-like shell for it's front default
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Wait a 2 weeks and see the OS X 10.3 With a lot more UNIX stuff!
Freebsd 5
Apple X11 (built-in)
Gcc 3.3 Dev tools
and more
i think panther also comes with bash as the default shell. 
Make sure the company supports OSX, if not, you could be in trouble if the product doesn't work as expected. Also, be sure they have a product available for the Apple platform. Software compiled for Intel, or Sparc will not run on XServe.
Now it do (INTEL)