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Re: MIDRANGE-L Digest, Vol 11, Issue 1962

The name IOS belongs to Cisco, and is used for an operating system that runs on their routers and switches. At Klement's, we had some WiFi access points that run it.

As far as I know, they still use it. According to Wikipedia, the most recent release was March 2012.

Apple licenses the name from them.


On 12/12/2012 11:50 PM, Jon Paris wrote:
If I recall correctly it doesn't - it belonged to Sun (now Oracle) although I think the system it related to was long gone.

Apple just kinda started using it and probably just used the power of numbers to invalidate any claim Sun might have had. IBM being a much more bureaucratic outfit probably asked nicely and were told to go away - or asked for some huge sum.


On 2012-12-12, at 12:16 PM, midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

And if IBM hadn't played internal politics and had listened to the user community i OS would not belong to Apple. Great marketing step that.

Jon Paris

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