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IBM Throws Weight Behind Desktop Linux
News Big Blue has heavily promoted the open-source operating system for use on servers, but Sam Docknevich of IBM's Global Services group plans to discuss how Linux's popularity now has spilled over into the desktop market, according to the agenda for...
[November 10, 2003, 7:30]
Ubuntu Coming Soon To Sun's Niagara
News Sun is increasingly embracing the use of Linux on its servers. Canonical will support Sun Microsystems' Niagara servers with the upcoming release of its Ubuntu Linux distribution, the companies are expected to announce on Tuesday.
[May 30, 2006, 8:50]
IBM Expands Lineup For Linux On Power4
News IBM is set to release a new edition of its WebSphere business software for versions of Linux that run on its iSeries and pSeries servers - systems that use its Power4 processor. The move, announced on Wednesday, begins to flesh out the software...
[July 10, 2003, 10:28]
Red Hat Ready To Tackle Microsoft's Desktop Dominance
News Red Hat, the leading seller of Linux, gets the vast majority of its revenue from the use of its product in servers -- more powerful networked computers typically run by technically proficient administrators.
[June 24, 2002, 16:41]
Linux Performance And Tuning Guidelines
White Papers Most enterprise applications are now available on Linux, including file and print servers, database servers, Web servers, and collaboration and mail servers. The use of Linux in an enterprise-class server requires monitoring performance and, when...
[October 31, 2007, 0:00]
SCO Names Linux Licensee
News EV1Servers.net, a company that hosts Web sites for clients and a division of Everyones Internet, signed a deal with SCO for running thousands of Linux servers without facing legal consequences from SCO.
[March 1, 2004, 16:20]
PeopleSoft Applications To Run On Linux
News In a development partnership with IBM, PeopleSoft will use Big Blue's Linux-based servers and software to rework its own applications for Linux. As part of the IBM deal, PeopleSoft has committed to developing Linux applications using IBM's own...
[May 6, 2003, 10:12]
VMware Enhances Server Software
News VMware's software lets workstations and servers run several copies of Windows or Linux simultaneously on the same computer -- a capability that mammoth mainframe computers have had for years and that Unix servers are beginning to feature.
[May 16, 2002, 10:28]
Leaner, Meaner Linux Makes Savings For Bergen
News As well as using Linux on the blade servers, Bergen has chosen to use open-source software to run the majority of the basic functions, including the file server. Ole-Bjørn Tuftedal, the city's chief technology officer, said on Thursday that Bergen...
[November 12, 2004, 15:00]
Niagara Gets Linux Virtualisation Boost
News Sun encourages use of Linux on the Niagara servers, however. Linux is most widely used on servers using x86 processors such as Intel's Xeon and AMD's Opteron, but it also runs on many other processors.
[January 2, 2007, 9:02]
Linux Cluster Firms Win Financial Backing
News Both companies specialise in groups of lower-end Linux servers linked into a high-performance computing cluster. Many of the characteristics of Scyld -- single system image, how you can provision or deprovision servers, how easy it is to manage...
[November 5, 2004, 7:38]
Sun Uses Intel And AMD For Budget Blades
News As part of this, it is expected to talk about plans to bundle Oracle's database software on its low-end servers as well as to discuss progress on its Linux efforts. Sun's first blade servers run its own Sparc microprocessors, but the company said...
[May 19, 2003, 9:39]
Linux Heads For 'A List'
News In partnership with Hewlett-Packard, the movie studio dipped its toes into Linux waters with "Shrek," using some lower-end HP servers to speed up the brute-force "rendering" process under which skeletal images are fleshed out with detailed colour...
[July 1, 2003, 8:09]
Desktop Linux Wins Powerful Supporters
News And the Open Source Development Lab, which so far has concentrated on Linux for the data storage and processing computers called servers, expects to launch a new group to concentrate on desktop needs starting next year.
[November 12, 2003, 7:45]
Novell To Run Networking Software On Linux
News By the end of 2003, the Utah-based company plans to ship Novell Nterprise Linux Services, which is software that performs services such as printing and file sharing on Linux network servers. As part of the Linux push, Novell has penned deals with...
[June 25, 2003, 9:36]
Linux Racks Up Corporate Credentials
News The last sellers of the high-end computers called servers moved into the Linux camp when Sun Microsystems reversed course earlier this year. HP inherited a strong position in Linux server sales when it acquired Compaq and its ProLiant line of Intel...
[August 8, 2002, 7:46]
Sun Announces Desktop Linux Deal, Opteron Integration
News As expected, Sun chief executive Scott McNealy on Monday showed off two servers that use the processor during a keynote speech at the Comdex trade show in Las Vegas, becoming the second major company to adopt the chip.
[November 18, 2003, 9:30]
HP Announces Itanium Server Upgrades
News In addition, through the use of SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 9 from Novell, Linux now can run on 16-processor Integrity servers instead of just eight-processor models, HP said. HP also announced version 3 of its HP-UX Workload Manager for...
[January 18, 2005, 7:45]
Study: Linux Headed For High End, Too
News The study included a survey of 100 corporate technology departments, 19 of which use Linux today in lower-end servers, 14 of which use it to run databases, 11 of which use it on mainframes and 12 of which use it on desktop computers.
[January 10, 2003, 8:09]
UK Charity Builds Linux Network On A Shoestring
Talkback I don't have time for hard-to-use Linux distros, so I'm rebuilding our network infrastructure chosing from an array of available, easy-to-use Linux servers: SME Server, Karoshi, Tiny Sofa, CentOS & CD-bootable servers like Nexedi DLS, RedWall.
[March 30, 2005, 5:36]
