Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at a PDP-11. Peter Hamer [CC BY-SA 2.0] Last week the computing world celebrated an important anniversary: the UNIX operating system turned 50 years old. What was ...

Does anyone have experience migrating workload from AIX to Linux on Power? If so, can you share your thoughts on overall the throughput & performance of your workload before and after the move? We ...

IBM used its long-awaited Regatta Unix server launch to trumpet its claim to the best price-performance high-end Unix server, and score points against Sun and Hewlett-Packard. As well as the ...

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Geo. H. Young & Co. Ltd. began experimenting with the Linux operating system six years ago, and the Winnipeg-based customs brokerage firm has been expanding its use of Linux ever since. According to ...

If you look at the whole set of issues facing a data center manager researching Solaris on SPARC versus AIX on Power in response to some senior executive with an IBM agenda, the one thing that stands ...

Commercial enterprise UNIX today reminds me of vintage clothes and furniture. Just when you think certain things have become passé in favor of newer more modern things, they are somehow revived and ...