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Windows Server floating onto Amazon's cloud
News Starting sometime this autumn, Amazon said customers of its EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) service will be able to run Windows, in addition to the Unix-based options currently available. Our goal is to support any and all... [02 Oct 2008]
Sun goes for virtualisation x-factor
News Although the product is free to download, support for the new application - including access to patches and training - costs $500 per physical server per year.xVM is built to work on Windows, Linux and Unix operating... [11 Sep 2008]
Hardware defies economic gloom
News But, for servers, the Unix market is still dominated by Sun, added Rasit. Linux-based systems are a beneficiary of this trend, thanks to the move away from high-end Unix systems to... [02 Jul 2008]
Linux web servers "faster"
News BSD trailed behind at three per cent and Unix at one per cent. Linux-based websites perform better than those hosted on Windows servers, according to new research. German firms are less keen on... [21 Jun 2007]
Sun's Solaris to get that Linux feeling?
News Sun has been trying for years to restore the lustre of Solaris, a version of Unix that peaked in popularity in the late 1990s but has since faced a strong challenge chiefly from Linux. Linux and Solaris are cousins that... [10 May 2007]
Sun touts 'Logical' Solaris update
News Sun Microsystems has updated its Solaris operating system with a feature that lets its newest Sparc-based servers run multiple copies of the Unix variant in separate partitions. The feature catches Sun... [16 Jan 2007]
IBM hits server seller with patent suit
News PSI's machines can also run more conventional operating systems - including Linux, Windows and Unix - that are already geared for Itanium. IBM has sued Platform Solutions, which aims to sell servers that... [07 Dec 2006]
$12.9bn: Server market on the up
News The share of x86 servers increased by 4.8 per cent and continued to erode the Unix/RISC market. Blade revenue shot up nearly 30 per cent in the third quarter while unit shipments of blade... [22 Nov 2006]
CIO Jury: The Linux desktop is dead
News A more likely Unix on the desktop is Mac OS X. All apps will be hosted on servers locally on the net. Linux is unlikely ever to be a viable alternative to Microsoft's Windows on the desktop for corporate... [08 Nov 2006]
HP to bolster its Integrity
News HP plans to announce today that it is upgrading its high-end Integrity server line with Intel's new "Montecito" Itanium processor - a move to counter a resurgent Sun Microsystems and 2005's Unix server top dog, IBM. [07 Sep 2006]
Big Blue ready for mainframe battle
News Mainframes are lauded even by competitors for their reliability and heavy-duty communication abilities but the machines don't come cheap - the new System z9 Business Class has lowered the starting price to $100,000 - and there are... [29 Aug 2006]
Intel sheds another fringe business
News At one point, Intel had hoped to transform the telecommunications business with products based on industry standards, in a fashion similar to how it moved the server market away from Risc (reduced instruction set computer) processors... [10 Aug 2006]
Sun mulls GPL 3 licence for Solaris
News The server and software company is considering releasing Solaris under the forthcoming version 3 of the General Public Licence (GPL) in addition to the Community Development and Distribution Licence that currently governs the... [31 Jan 2006]
2008 Olympics plans open source migration
News The IT behind the Olympics is a massive operation involving some 1,200 IT team members, including 800 volunteers, who run 450 Intel-based servers and Unix boxes, 4,700 PCs and 700 printers. The 2008... [02 Dec 2005]
Qantas looking to bring tech into 21st century
News The carrier's engineering and maintenance software - written in Cobol - is long overdue for replacement but getting a business case together for the AU$100 million-plus cost to shift it onto a Unix environment has proven... [28 Nov 2005]
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