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 ...

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 on Monday unveiled four new POWER7 server models which it said could lead to a consolidation of smaller servers into fewer larger ones while cutting data center energy costs. The Unix server ...

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 ...

While Unix may not be growing as fast as other segments of the market, it accounts for nearly a third of all server shipments. In its latest Quarterly Server Tracker, IDC says that Unix revenue grew ...

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 ...

IBM’s $1 billion acquisition of Informix Inc. last week is being viewed by analysts as an effort by Big Blue to expand its presence in the Unix database market and compete more effectively against ...