How important is UNIX® to the Internet? Explain why and support your position using examples. Solution Ans. Importance of UNIX to internet: A lot of web applications are built for UNIX OS. These applications serve only to UNIX platform. These applications have static and dynamic content and UNIX OS does that very well. Many ofthese applications can ne built to run on Windows too but it has a virus issue. Windows can cause many viruses whereas there is no virus when it come to UNIX OS. For example, APACHE server runs on both UNIX and WIndows but it finds its application more on UNIX due to absence of viruses there..