And International Data Corp, Framingham, Massachusetts confirms this upward trend in the Unix market, and predicts that investments in the operating system during this year alone will rise by a healthy double figure percentage: future plans may also be affected by the fact that a reported 50% of Unix users in the US want the system to expand to fulfill a key role within the data processing activity of a company, implying that Unix is already being seen as the standard operating system of the future.