IBM used its long-awaited Regatta Unix server launch to trumpet its claim to the best price-performance high-end Unix server, and score points against Sun and Hewlett-Packard. As well as the ...

If you look at the whole set of issues facing a data center manager researching Solaris on SPARC versus AIX on Power in response to some senior executive with an IBM agenda, the one thing that stands ...

The day is approaching when Linux will likely replace IBM's version of Unix, says the company's top software executive. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

Penguin-power suffocates AIX as it sleeps. IBM (NYSE:IBM) is pouring more money into Linux. This time, it’s to get people to use Linux on its POWER servers. But that doesn’t mean IBM is killing AIX.

Processors, that is -- new rev of high-end server line will benefit greatly from IBM's five-year investment in Linux development IBM loves Linux — so much so, in fact, that it’s pledged $1 billion for ...

Back in December, IBM announced the first phase of its POWER9 products—its first POWER9 chip and its first POWER9-based server (read my full write-up of the announcement here). Now IBM has officially ...

Executives at the computer giant say the p630 will run the Linux operating system natively and will ship without AIX,the proprietary technology that helped fuel growth of the company's legacy RS/6000 ...

Qantas Airways next month plans to shift the underlying platform running its internal finance systems from Linux to IBM Unix variant AIX. "(We're shifting to the IBM AIX environment) to address some ...

IBM Corp. will ship a new version of its pSeries 615 server next Friday that includes not only a faster microprocessor, but also a financial incentive to purchase the system with Linux rather than IBM ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive for IBM’s software division, spoke with Computerworld at the LinuxWorld Conference here last week about Linux usage trends and ...