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 ...

For the full year, Linux server revenues were $5.7 billion, putting it in third place for the first time, from an operating system perspective, as customers continued to expand the role of Linux ...

Big Blue powers up a prototype of "Squadron," its coming high-end Unix server with 64 Power5 processors, an important step in IBM's plans to unify its four server lines. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

Big Blue will disclose details on Friday of its future server chips, the most important hardware in its battle to dethrone Sun from the top of the $21 billion Unix server market. Stephen Shankland ...

The use of the Linux operating system is becoming more common throughout the IT industry. Many corporate IT departments are using Linux to complement existing Unix systems using special-purpose Linux ...

FreeBSD 15 isn’t flashy, but that is exactly why it works. Its stability, structure, and predictability make boring feel ...

Years before Mac OS X 10.0 was first released in 2001, Apple launched Mac OS X Server, targeting its newly acquired Unix-based operating system technology at the education and workgroup server market.

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 ...

Mac OS X Server is Apple’s Unix server operating system. At its core, OS X Server shares a number of components with FreeBSD, and most Linux or xBSD apps can be recompiled fairly easily to run on OS X ...

Unix is one of the IT world’s few living legends. It has been in continuous use since its birth in 1969 and its storied past is like that of a nation: Inept rulers brought it to the brink of ruin, a ...