SAN DIEGO--And the Unix system will lay down with the Windows system, and lo, there shall be peace among the vendors. IT folks are hoping for major interoperability improvements between leading server ...

Big Blue is set to release improvements to its AIX version of Unix that makes the software better able to juggle multiple jobs in the same machine. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

After four decades, the future of the operating system is clouded, but its legacy will endure. Originally written in one month during the summer of ’69, a little operating system called Unix would go ...

Microsoft last week made available for free its Services for Unix software, which helps integrate Unix and Windows, and supports migrations of Unix applications to the Microsoft platform. Microsoft ...

IBM announced Wednesday that it is rolling out a new version of its database software for Linux and Unix customers. The DB2 Universal Database version 8.2, code-named Stinger, is designed to ...

OPERATING SYSTEM VENDORS talk a good game in terms of interoperability, but their objective is to get you off competitors’ software and onto theirs. As such, transparent interoperability is not a high ...

In a twist of irony, the Unix platform celebrates its 40th birthday this year, as does the man whose work probably has done more to diminish the trendiness of Unix than anyone else: Linux founder ...

As Intel’s server chips become more powerful and Microsoft addresses lingering doubts about how far its operating system can scale reliably, enterprise customers face an increasingly tough choice over ...