Over a year in the making IBM has just unveiled its new IBM PowerLinux Systems and Solutions. This new series of Linux-specific POWER7 processor-based hardware comes with a choice of either Red Hat Enterprise Linux or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server . It’s designed for analyzing Big Data, managing industry-specific applications and delivering open source infrastructure [...]
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Red Hat and SUSE join IBM in new Linux system, Canonical opts out
April 25th, 2012 · Comments Off
Tags: AIX · Business · Canonical · IBM · Infrastructure · Linux · Operating System · Red Hat · Server · SUSE
OS/2 turns 25
April 2nd, 2012 · Comments Off
Who, like me, once used OS/2? What, you don’t know OS/2? On April 2, 1987, IBM and Microsoft announced a then revolutionary, 32-bit server and desktop operating system that was going to change the world: OS/2. Well that’s what they said anyway. In reality, Bill Gates quickly decided that he’d do better by going it [...]
Tags: Business · Desktop · IBM · Infrastructure · Microsoft · Operating System · Server
Linux servers keep growing, Windows & Unix keep shrinking
March 15th, 2012 · Comments Off
In 2011, we saw, according to IDC’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, factory revenue in the worldwide server market grew for Linux while it shrank for Windows and Unix. What I find especially interesting about this is that IDC doesn’t measure when you or your company install Linux on a bare-metal server or a re-purposed [...]
Tags: Business · Cloud Computing · Dell · HP · IBM · Infrastructure · Linux · Operating System · Oracle · Server · Unix · Windows
IBM to close down Symphony, its OpenOffice fork
January 30th, 2012 · Comments Off
In a brief note, Ed Brill, an IBM product line manager, announced that IBM has likely seen its last release of Symphony, its OpenOffice fork. Later, in the blog’s discussion thread, Eric Otchet, Symphony’s product manager, seemingly confirmed that this was the end of the road for Symphony when he wrote about Apache OpenOffice the [...]
Tags: Applications · Business · Development · IBM · Office Software · Open Source
Where Linux crushes Windows like a bug: Supercomputers
November 14th, 2011 · Comments Off
The faster a computer goes, the more likely is to have Linux at its heart. The most recent Top500 list of supercomputers shows that, if anything, Linux is becoming even more popular at computing’s high end. In the latest Top500 Supercomputer list, you’ll find when you dig into the supercomputer statistics that Linux runs 457 [...]
Tags: AIX · Business · IBM · Infrastructure · Linux · Microsoft · Novell · Operating System · Red Hat · Supercomputer · Unix · Windows