Later this month IBM will release Version 2.0 of its Eclipse open source development platform featuring an enhanced Java toolset, improved team and repository support, and support for the AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, SuSE Linux and Windows XP operating...
Linux, an open source relative of the Unix operating system, is gradually gaining the higher-end characteristics of more seasoned Unix versions such as Sun Microsystems' Solaris, IBM's AIX and Hewlett-Packard's HP-UX, Mills said.
HP has already said it will come out with a version of its Superdome server, originally equipped with HP's PA-RISC chip, which is capable of holding 64, and later 128, Intel Itanium 2 chips. HP yesterday released HP-UX 11iv2, the latest version of...
HP is using Itanium to gradually replace its own PA-RISC processor. Mark Hudson, head of marketing for the company's server group, said the company expects revenue from Itanium systems to exceed that of PA-RISC in 2005.
On the other hand, it's still pretty ad hoc compared to, say, HP-UX development," observed Illuminata analyst Gordon Haff, referring to HP's version of Unix. And the Open Source Development Lab, which employs Torvalds, aligns corporate feature...
DEC is gone, HP-UX is going away, PA-RISC is gone," he said, referring to Digital Equipment Corp. Sun also is spreading its Java Enterprise System software to Windows, IBM's AIX version of Unix, and Hewlett-Packard's HP-UX version of Unix.