IBM announces new midrange Unix servers in a tightening market that has Big Blue and its chief competitor, Sun Microsystems, at each other's throats. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

Big Blue plans to release a new top-end Unix server in 2004, a 64-processor machine code-named Armada that will feature the company's coming Power5 processor. Stephen Shankland Former Principal Writer ...

If you've ever looked over at one of the terminals a Costco employee is using, you may be wondering why it looks like ...

If IBM actually were to buy Sun Microsystems Inc., the world’s largest maker of Unix servers would take over the No. 2 vendor. Unix servers may not be getting as much attention as Sun’s Java and MySQL ...

IBM has strengthened its hand in the Unix business with new systems based on its Power7 processors, including a server for large enterprises that scales to 256 cores. The Power 795 is IBM’s biggest ...

The National Weather Service (NWS) is replacing outdated Unix-based computers from Hewlett-Packard Co. with new IBM IntelliStation computers running Linux. The move should speed up the delivery of ...