But for Ex-Cel Solutions, it was an easy choice. The Omaha, Neb.-based MSP came across a big opportunity to capture up to 400 new customers through a relationship with a software company that makes ...

Takeaway: Unix’s rock-solid reliability means that its relevant now more than ever – and Linux puts Unix’s power within reach. Unix has been around for a very long time. We remember the rampant ...

The FreeBSD Project has released a new stable version of its popular Unix operating system, officially incorporating for the first time Sun's flagship DTrace performance-analysis and debugging tool.

Kaydara Inc. offered an important endorsement for Mac OS X and the Power Mac G5 on Wednesday. The company announced that it has selected Mac OS X as the sole Unix-based operating system upon which to ...

Ransom Love is chief executive of Caldera Systems, which was formed from the merger earlier this year of Caldera with the operating system and services arms of SCO. ZDNet: What is your biggest concern ...

The Apple Developer Connection (ADC) Web site sports a new feature article for developers entitled Developing Cross-Platform UNIX Applications with Mac OS X. It offers developers some practical advice ...

Vintela, which writes software to integrate Windows and competing platforms, has developed an extension to Microsoft’s management software so it can service Unix, Linux and Macintosh computers. The ...

Oracle's decision to stop development of its software for the Itanium platform is viewed by many in the industry as a chance to drive part of the shrinking Unix business to its Sun platform while ...

In the 1990s and well into the 2000s, if you had mission-critical applications that required zero downtime, resiliency, failover and high performance, but didn’t want a mainframe, Unix was your go-to ...

In a twist of irony, the Unix platform celebrates its 40th birthday this year, as does the man whose work probably has done more to diminish the trendiness of Unix than anyone else: Linux founder ...

Solaris has been Sun Microsystems’s bread-and-butter Unix system since 1992. While Unix platforms such as Solaris now are up against the open source Linux juggernaut, Sun maintains it has the ...