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 ...

Hewlett-Packard is about to unveil a midrange Unix server, an eight-processor machine that incorporates features from HP's higher-end brethren into the core of its Unix line. Stephen Shankland worked ...

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 ...

IBM announced two new top-end Unix servers Friday, creating major challenges to Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard. The new servers are the biggest iron in IBM's Squadron family of servers, which ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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

IBM has added a new capability to its virtualization platform that will allow Linux applications to run on IBM’s Unix servers, the company announced Tuesday. The “Lx86” capability, to be included in ...

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 ...

I'm my own sysadmin and I only have myself to blame ...