Ultimately, every problem in the constantly evolving IT software stack becomes a database problem, which is why there are 418 different databases and datastores in the DB Engines rankings and there ...

Our tests of Novell’s SuSE Linux Enterprise Server Version 9 – we tested revision 9.1 of the server software – show it to be polished, faster and supporting a wider breadth of applications than ...

The week of June 20 saw interesting tidings in the x86-based operating system front—good news for Windows enthusiasts, and bad news for the Linux contingent. First, the Linux news: LynuxWorks, a Linux ...

Mac OS X Server is Apple’s Unix server operating system. At its core, OS X Server shares a number of components with FreeBSD, and most Linux or xBSD apps can be recompiled fairly easily to run on OS X ...

Rapid growth in the market for x86 servers over the past year brought good news for both Linux and Windows, as research firm IDC reported last week. What’s not always appreciated, however, is just how ...

SuSE Linux is bundling e-mail and groupware applications with its Linux server operating system in a new product aimed at the business market. The SuSE Linux Openexchange Server features SuSE's Linux ...

MacOS and Windows are the two most popular desktop and laptop operating systems. They’re the two central OS choices dominating the desktop and laptop markets today. But have you heard of the ...

Setting up a secure server isn’t necessarily for the faint of heart. To make it easier for IT administrators, Guardian Digital Inc. has released (download PDF) EnGarde Secure Linux Version 1.2, ...

In 1991, Unix was an important but secondary x86 operating system. That year, on August 25, a mild-mannered Finnish graduate student named Linus Benedict Torvalds announced on the Usenet group comp.os ...