Sun is also boasting better scalability, written to the OS at kernel level, to beat Microsoft on the clustering issue. Sun Microsystems will release the next version of its Unix operating system (OS), called Solaris 7, tomorrow.
Linux and Windows NT were set against each other in a series of tests, including user satisfaction, OS interoperability, OS scalability, OS support, operational features and application support. According to Bloor, the open source operating system...
When you're talking about user volumes of hundreds or thousands ASPs often cannot add extra users or applications at the touch of a switch. Maxine Holt, senior research analyst at Butler Research, complained that comments like this mislead...
It is delivered with a Darwin kernel - a FreeBSD - which offers stability, scalability and reliability. Graphically, OS X is supplied with Aqua, an interface that takes the 2D Quartz graphical system to an extra level of depth, colour, translucence...
Systems that 'do not scale' have some inherent limitations that prevent the system from expanding to meet greater volumes of useage. A system with a high degree of scalability can be 'scaled up' for increased performance when necessary, or 'scaled...
Symbian's strategic focus must remain on driving increased shipments through the adoption of Symbian OS for further handset models, and particularly for the development of lower price, mid-range handsets designed to ship in higher volumes," he...