A new focus on IBM's Power architecture is giving Big Blue another shot at taking on the Linux on x86 sector.

Unix deliberately lets you go whatever way you want, yes, but some ways you shouldn’t want to go. As I study tech sector innovations, I see signs that the old traditions are fading. I’m not one to ...

To be fair to them, IBM have handled this problem reasonably well by establishing separate commercial entities for the different sectors, with different products. They have been very successful in the ...

13 July 2004 With much bombast and hyperbole, IBM has announced a new Unix server line that it claims outperforms its rivals’ by up to three times, at half their costs. IBM needs to make a big splash ...

Simply sign up to the Asia myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Normally the also-ran when it comes to new technology, the public sector worldwide has taken the lead in adopting Linux ...

Dennis Ritchie, the creator of the C programming language and co-developer of the Unix operating system passed away on October 8 at the age of 70, leaving a legacy that casts a very long shadow.

Doug Michels, president and chief executive of Santa Cruz Operation, has dismissed rumours that the Unix market is in terminal decline and claimed there is evidence of growth in the sector. At the SCO ...

Government IT workers in the U.S. outscore their private-sector counterparts on knowledge of Unix, Linux and Microsoft Corp. software but still lag in networking, databases and Internet ...

Red Hat and other open-source companies are making strides as the public sector seeks their solutions to "increase security, save money and address the needs of management." Close.

Aside from Linux and Unix skills, those most in most demand include SQL, Java, C, C#, ... the number of permanent public sector jobs is down 21 per cent since the change in government, ...