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. The fifth-place ranking on the Transaction Performance Council's TPC-C...
Open source is gaining momentum in the market; customers want to leverage it," said Chris Stone, Novell vice chairman, office of the CEO, in a statement. Networking-software company Novell on Monday gave details of plans to tighten its products...
Microsoft is working to solve an incompatibility issue that prevents backups made with Windows Server 2003 from being read on previous versions of Windows. The software giant's latest operating system saves data to tape using a slightly different...
Microsoft is trying to convince businesses to spend more money on server software, as the company readies product releases for later this year. At the company-sponsored TechEd conference in Dallas, Microsoft executives will announce that two key...
This lets SAP leverage the Microsoft development community to build SAP applications, which hasn't been that easy in the past because of proprietary interfaces," said Ron Schmelzer, an analyst with ZapThink.
Microsoft's newly-launched Windows Server 2008 has been given a cautious welcome by customers. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer launched Windows Server 2008 this week, calling it the most significant Windows Server release since the first version.