Hewlett-Packard has been struggling in the Unix server market, but it plans an offensive with a product featuring twice the chips of its current top-end Superdome. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

IBM has powered up a prototype of "Squadron," its coming high-end Unix server with 64 Power5 processors, an important step in Big Blue's plans to unify its four server lines. "We manufactured our ...

Microsoft's Linux server distribution is now available as an ISO to install on your own server or virtual machine.

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

While that eventually might be the case--if the final results of Tuesday's shareholder vote on the HP-Compaq merger end up supporting the deal--the two companies aren't on top in the Unix server arena ...

Long the server operating system of choice for corporations and universities, Unix has seen its lead in the server OS market slip in recent years. Both Windows and Linux have been eating away at Unix ...

While the Unix server business has lost much of its glamour in the face of assaults from Windows, Linux, and the cloud, there is still plenty of life -- and growth -- in the business, although for the ...

Rapid growth in the market for x86 servers over the past year brought good news for both Linux and Windows, as research firm IDC reported last week. What’s not always appreciated, however, is just how ...

Demand for mainframe and high-performance Unix servers is falling, but a new wave of SPARC and IBM Power chips for the servers will be unwrapped at the Hot Chips conference in late August. IBM, Oracle ...

Minimalist systems taught me that distros are not different operating systems but mere configurations, whether server- or ...

Windows has overcome Unix to claim the server sales crown for the first time, according to IDC's latest Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker. The Windows server market continued to show solid growth, ...