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Sun to match Red Hat pricing model
News Top Linux seller Red Hat sells its operating system in the form of an annual subscription; 12-hour-a-day support for a two-processor server costs $799 (£434) per year, but Red Hat's overall average selling price was $455 per year for its most...
[April 1, 2004, 8:50]
Monti's verdict on Microsoft - blow by blow
News Monti said this will enable rival vendors to develop products that can compete on a level playing field in the work group server operating system market, said the. Issuing the verdict, the EU competition commissioner, Mario Monti, said Microsoft...
[March 24, 2004, 11:30]
LinuxWorld: Veritas brings storage software to Linux
News Veritas, which earlier had sold backup software for Linux, said at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo that later this year it plans to bring its to open-source operating system its "clustering" software, a respected high-end package that lets one...
[January 30, 2002, 14:37]
Yankee Group slams 'Linux extremists'
Talkback Let Microsoft setup a system and let Redhat (& Suse & Mandrake & Debian, etc) setup their system (server and/or desktop), then let the experts maintain the systems. It's a real world out there.run a system as a company (email, central server (samba...
[April 9, 2005, 2:48]
Lighting a fire under Solaris
News Now the company is looking to get ahead and is working on a long list of features that touch most aspects of the server operating system. Even with the x86 server embrace, reclaiming lost momentum isn't easy.
[April 26, 2006, 11:45]
Sun considers Linux partnerships
News The server seller uses its own version of the open-source operating system in its computers. Sun shipped a number of freely available open-source packages with its Linux machines: the Apache Software Foundation Web server, the MySQL database, the...
[March 7, 2003, 12:39]
Microsoft plays catch-up on virtualisation
News The software will ship within six months of Longhorn Server, the next major release of the company's server operating system, due in the second half of next year. The company will begin testing its hypervisor software, developed under the code name...
[May 23, 2006, 9:25]
Apple moves into Asian server market
News Unix administrators will find the interface familiar, he said, because Mac OS X is based on Unix, the most common large-server operating system. Apple has its sights fixed on Asia's multimedia streaming, education and biotech markets as it gears up...
[August 5, 2002, 15:07]
Is Microsoft losing its grip in Asia?
News These days, any abnormal behaviour in your PC or server will likely be blamed on that ubiquitous "bug in the system". Sadly, the never-ending task of downloading patches only seem to delay the inevitable, as new security holes--in Microsoft's...
[October 30, 2001, 9:15]
South Korea orders Microsoft to unbundle Windows
News In South Korea, Microsoft has been found guilty of violating the Act by tying its Windows Media Player to the Windows server operating system, and its instant messaging program to the desktop version of
[December 7, 2005, 9:25]
Microsoft's Hyper-V: why all the fuss? review
Reviews Like original offerings from market pioneer VMware and others, Microsoft's current server virtualisation product, Virtual Server 2005, is a hosted solution, designed to run as an application on top of a standard operating system.
[February 27, 2008, 9:14]
Windows grabs server market lead
News For the first time, Microsoft can say it makes the most popular server operating system, according to the report. Microsoft Windows captured the lead for the first time in server operating systems during the third quarter, boosted by continued...
[November 24, 2005, 8:15]
Oracle brings clustering to Linux
News Dell has certified that its PowerEdge servers will run Red Hat Linux Advanced Server, a more robust version of the operating system, and Release 2 of Oracle's 9i database software. In addition, the company shipped new versions of its application...
[June 5, 2002, 15:29]
Greenpeace UK makes 'sensible' switch to Linux
News Steve Thomson, finance and IT director at Greenpeace UK, said the organisation evaluated both Windows and Linux and decided to run its Mail server on Windows but employ Linux for its Web server, application server and general office operations...
[March 26, 2004, 9:45]
Java Desktop System reaches version two
News Sun Microsystems plans to release on Tuesday the second version of its Java Desktop System, the server maker's version of Linux for desktop computers, augmenting the software with new management and programming tools.
[June 1, 2004, 9:15]
SuSE achieves Linux security certification
News In August 2003, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) was certified to meet Evaluation Assurance Level 2 (EAL2) of an internationally adopted set of government security requirements called the Common Criteria.
[January 21, 2004, 12:50]
News Roundup: Microsoft ends XP speculation
News Wed, 09 May The next version of the Windows desktop operating system will ship on 25 October, but server versions could still face delays Another disappointment for Microsoft came when Compaq confirmed that it has abandoned plans to sell Unisys...
[May 2, 2001, 15:19]
IBM eServer xSeries 226 8488 (Xeon 3GHz) review
Reviews One of those discs includes the IBM ServerGuide, a useful application that walks you through the complex process of configuring the server's hardware components and installing the operating system you choose for the machine.
[August 11, 2005, 9:10]
Active Directory Performance for 64-bit Versions of Windows Server 2003
White Papers This white paper compares performance of the 64-bit Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system and the 32-bit Windows Server 2003 operating system with Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Active Directory directory service operations.
[June 7, 2006, 1:00]
Cost-cutting prompts closer look at Linux
News But a new report from market researcher IDC indicates that Microsoft's share of the server operating systems market continues to outpace that of Linux. According to the report, shipments of Microsoft's server operating systems grew from 50.5...
[October 10, 2003, 15:35]
