At this point, Itanium seems to have built a large enough ecosystem, at least in an HP-UX context, to support virtually any customer workload. Most Itanium systems use HP's version of Unix (HP-UX) but they can also run Linux, Windows and HP's...
The debut of OpenVMS 8.2 will mean that a fourth operating system can run simultaneously on the same Itanium server alongside Windows, Linux and HP's version of Unix, called HP-UX. But the company doesn't plan a high-profile campaign such as its HP...
Apple is also hoping to woo cash-strapped technology managers looking to cut their client-computing costs, particularly in the face of Microsoft's Licensing 6 programme, which, according to market researcher Gartner raises upgrade fees anywhere...
However, when equipping a data centre to provide SaaS, it will be an enterprise-style deployment expected to support many users and be scalable for an unknown number of users into the future. The reason for this is that when the application is...
In another release, called OpenLinux Workstation, it gives developers the chance to write new applications in the Linux environment and run the applications on the more scalable Unix. Caldera will use last year's acquisition of SCO to scale Linux...
The conflict stems from last week's Gartner Group symposium in Florida where Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun, irritated open source die-hards by claiming Unix was the same as Linux. The hardware side supports Linux on Sparc but the software side wants to...