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Linux gets high-end server boost
News Support for NUMA is a feature of Windows Server 2003, Microsoft announced last year. Currently server makers such as these must do without NUMA support or must create and support custom modifications to Linux.
[January 30, 2003, 7:56]
Servers: Sun's looking for a quick change
News The concept falls under the idea of "provisioning," in which software such as operating systems or higher-level programs are sent to a server. Sun Microsystems is working on a project to let administrators quickly change the personalities of large...
[December 5, 2001, 11:18]
Windows Server 2003 gaining sites from Linux
News The company also noted that the number of sites running on the FreeBSD version of Unix have continued to increase -- the only operating system besides Linux and Windows that the survey has found to be on the rise, rather than losing market share...
[July 18, 2003, 11:19]
OpenVZ virtualisation comes to Power chips
News OpenVZ software is useful for increasing Linux server efficiency, but most attention today is devoted to a different technology, Xen, which lets multiple independent operating systems run. Software that runs on multiple server types is useful for...
[October 13, 2006, 9:40]
Novell buys SuSE Linux
News It could accelerate changes in Novell and SuSE product plans, including SuSE's transformation from a seller of operating systems to a seller of higher-level server software and Novell's move from NetWare to Linux as a foundation for its software.
[November 4, 2003, 12:45]
Comdex '99: Linux high rollers storm Comdex
News Because "we see Linux being adopted very fast" as a network-server operating system, Mangalam said. While Linux suffers from few viruses, CA believes that its growing use as a Windows file server means those Linux servers require high-end, anti...
[November 16, 1999, 13:34]
Bloody battles in the courtroom: an Apple history
News If Apple is sued by server appliance manufacturer Cobalt, it will be the latest in a long line of legal entanglements that go back to the creation of the Mac OS. Cobalt alleges Apple copied the design of its Qube line of server appliances for the...
[August 3, 2000, 15:00]
Ballmer: Give streaming media a chance
News Microsoft has targeted multimedia and Internet streaming as key technologies for extending the reach of its Windows family of server and PC operating systems, engaging in a bitter standards battle with market leader RealNetworks.
[December 13, 2000, 11:10]
Microsoft throws free software at the Linux threat
News Microsoft previously charged $99 (£53.53) per client or server to use SFU. This is really about the interoperability," said Dennis Oldroyd, the marketing director for Microsoft's Windows Server Group.
[January 14, 2004, 8:10]
Microsoft's Web hosting service is incompatible with .Net
News Microsoft's .Net plan includes new releases of the company's Windows operating system and server software, along with development tools to make programs more Internet-aware. The 25-person company, which sells marketing and design services, planned...
[March 14, 2003, 10:28]
Borland takes on Microsoft with developer tools
News The .Net plan includes new versions of the Windows operating system and new server software. It will also support Microsoft's Common Language Runtime, which allows software developers to use many types of programming languages to write applications...
[August 23, 2002, 11:45]
Mandrake takes UnitedLinux to task
News Linux has become a popular server operating system because of its stability and low cost, although it has yet to make inroads on the desktop. In a long statement issued on Tuesday, MandrakeSoft dismissed the claims of UnitedLinux -- which will see...
[July 3, 2002, 13:50]
Solaris and Sparc gain virtualisation focus
News Running multiple operating systems is useful for making a single computer more efficient and is a major trend in the server market today. The movement to run multiple operating systems on a single server has been maturing long enough that even...
[January 26, 2006, 9:30]
Sun servers get new virtualisation option
News Customers using the technology will require the 11/06 update to Solaris 10, due in November, and either new hardware due in January or a firmware update to existing Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers, said Pradeep Parmar, product manager of business...
[October 17, 2006, 9:35]
Sun: Zero-revenue model is no threat
News But Sun does have a large quantity of proprietary software as well, including its Solaris operating system and its Java Enterprise System server software. Sun Microsystems may have been the last major server maker to embrace Linux, but chief...
[February 12, 2004, 10:30]
Battle brews over Linux server share
News Dan Kusnetzky, an IDC analyst, told eWEEK that his company's provisional figures for 2000 showed that Linux as a server operating system -- regardless of the operating system or machine on which it was installed -- represented 27 percent of the...
[June 12, 2001, 10:24]
US Report: Go after Microsoft - SPA
News By way of example, the SPA claims developers at Netscape were able to equal the performance of Microsoft Internet server software designed for the NT operating system only after they discovered features within NT not documented elsewhere.
[June 22, 1998, 9:37]
TurboLinux makes desktop debut
News Despite the version number, TurboLinux Workstation 3.6 is the first desktop-oriented version of the operating system; it was previously available only in combination with the server version. TurboLinux's combined server and workstation package has...
[September 9, 1999, 10:59]
IBM lets Linux fans use mainframe for free
News To sign up, interested parties should look under "Linux Community Development System links" on IBM's zSeries server Web site. There are many folks.who would like to get access to a mainframe and can't," said Joann Duguid, director of marketing for...
[May 23, 2001, 9:14]
£35,000 hacking challenge cracked
News Argus Systems organised the competition -- to break into a Web server locked down using its security product called PitBull -- to promote its products and to coincide with the start of Infosec, the UK's premier computer security event.
[April 23, 2001, 14:44]
