IBM on Tuesday will release improvements to its AIX version of Unix that makes the software better able to juggle multiple jobs in the same machine. In the race among No. 1 Unix server seller Sun ...

Originally written in one month during the summer of ’69, a little operating system called Unix would go on to be one of the most important pieces of software ever written. Four decades later, the ...

Commercial enterprise UNIX today reminds me of vintage clothes and furniture. Just when you think certain things have become passé in favor of newer more modern things, they are somehow revived and ...

Big Blue is set to release improvements to its AIX version of Unix that makes the software better able to juggle multiple jobs in the same machine. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

Sun, the No. 1 seller of Unix servers, licenses broader rights to Unix and gets the option to buy a stake in the company that owns those rights. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created. In August 1969, Ken Thompson, a programmer ...

SCO GroupとNovellが、Unixの著作権をめぐる両社の論争に関連した資料の公表を開始した。これらの書類は、Linuxオペレーティングシステムに対する知的財産権を主張するSCOにとって重要な材料となる。 SCOとNovellの公開した資料には、NovellがUnix事業をSCOの前身に ...

米SCO Groupは米IBMがUNIXのライセンス契約に違反したとして、米国時間3月6日に提訴した。これに対し、IBMは「SCOが確証事実なしに主張している」と述べ、SCOの要求に容易に応じない構えをみせた。 SCOの主張は、IBMがLinux事業を推進するためにUNIXソフトウェアの ...

The Library of Congress’ Preservation.exe meeting was last week… two days of fascinating presentations on the challenges of preserving historical software, digital media, and computing environments. I ...