Big Blue's CIO has directed the company to begin an internal initiative to evaluate Linux for use on desktop computers, a further endorsement of the open-source operating system. Stephen Shankland ...

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 ...

IBM hopes to have 40,000 Linux desktop users within the company by year’s end, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that the computer giant thinks everyone should move to the Linux desktop, an IBM ...

If the “big three” industrial-strength versions of Unix had personalities, Hewlett-Packard Co.’s HP-UX would be the engineer, manipulating wireframe CAD files while crunching numbers from a lab ...

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 ...

Sun Microsystems, in a somewhat sarcastic open letter to IBM posted on Sun’s Web site, is inviting Big Blue to purchase Sun’s Linux-based Sun Java Desktop System for IBM’s own employees. In a letter ...

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 ...

A three-year deal for IBM to provide software, hardware and services to the global petroleum industry has the potential to make Linux the standard platform for oil and gas exploration and production.

The University of California, Irvine has bought eight IBM computers to run an interconnected collection of global climate simulations. The overall system, which cost more than $1 million, consists of ...

What makes the IBM PC so significant in the history of personal computing? Its impact goes far beyond being a simple product – it's a symbol of standardization and accessibility that reshaped the ...