HP said it will add Linux application development APIs to its HP-UX operating system. IBM said it will bundle Red Hat Software's Linux with its servers and workstations, and also announced plans to port the operating system to its PowerPC chip.
The NEC system is available running Linux or HP-UX, HP's version of Unix. A $4.6m NEC server using Microsoft Windows has grabbed high marks in a closely watched performance ranking traditionally dominated by machines running the Unix operating system.
HP yesterday released HP-UX 11iv2, the latest version of its Unix operating system, for Itanium 2 servers and workstations. The Itanium-based workstation cluster is 50 per cent faster than on the former machines that Chrysler used for the job...
IBM countered that HP's Itanium Superdome results have used Windows, which has a much less mature collection of software, and that HP has yet to post a Superdome result with HP-UX and Itanium. IBM formally debuted its own Itanium-based servers on...
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. Windows and HP-UX versions are due by the end of the year, Sun has said.
Microsoft's Windows, Sun Microsystems' Solaris, Hewlett-Packard's HP-UX and IBM's AIX all have EAL4 certification. A consortium including Mandrakesoft, the Paris-based Linux seller that recently exited bankruptcy protection, has won a three-year...