The company appoints Val Rahmani, a 20-year IBM veteran, to lead its reinvigorated Unix server division at a key moment, as Big Blue stands to gain over rivals. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

IBM announces new midrange Unix servers in a tightening market that has Big Blue and its chief competitor, Sun Microsystems, at each other's throats. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

Utah-based SCO Group Monday said it has revoked the right of IBM Corp. to sell two versions of the Unix operating system. SCO also said it is upping the ante in its lawsuit against IBM, seeking up to ...

"IBM topped the survey again this year, winning most categories, but their lead was a bit narrower than last year," said Dan Olds, a principal analyst and CEO of the Gabriel Consulting Group. "The ...

They also come at a time when the third most important Unix processor line, Sun Microsystems' SPARC, is in a state of flux thanks to the acquisition of Sun by Oracle. Together, these are starting to ...

IBM last week made its first significant response to The SCO Group’s $1 billion lawsuit against it. SCO charges that IBM has stolen code from SCO’s Unix operating system and used it to strengthen Big ...

In a potential boon to Microsoft Corp. and other proprietary software companies, the owner of the Unix operating system filed a $1 billion lawsuit against International Business Machines Corp. for ...

IBM is expanding the low end of its portfolio of servers based on the Power5 processor with a system aimed at customers looking for compact, low-cost Unix systems for branch offices and retail ...

Sales of IBM's Unix servers are down almost 20 percent for Q3 compared to last year as market for proprietary Unix hardware shrinks IDC’s report for the server market in Q3 2013 is in, and the big ...

Continuing its steady push to win over the hearts and wallets of midsize companies, IBM on Tuesday is rolling out two lower-priced Unix-based servers that will go head-to-head with offerings from ...

Corporate users of IBM’s AIX operating system remained unfazed by The SCO Group Inc.’s decision earlier this week to follow through with its threat to revoke IBM’s AIX distribution license (see story) ...