It's a message that's becoming harder and harder to avoid when listening to IBM: Linux has arrived as a mainstream operating system. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

If IBM actually were to buy Sun Microsystems Inc., the world’s largest maker of Unix servers would take over the No. 2 vendor. Unix servers may not be getting as much attention as Sun’s Java and MySQL ...

Sun Microsystems, in a somewhat sarcastic open letter to IBM posted on Sun’s Web site, is inviting Big Blue to purchase Sun’s Linux-based Sun Java Desktop System for IBM’s own employees. In a letter ...

Executives at the computer giant say the p630 will run the Linux operating system natively and will ship without AIX,the proprietary technology that helped fuel growth of the company's legacy RS/6000 ...

IBM Corp. hopes to have 40,000 Linux desktop users within the company by year’s end, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that the computer giant thinks everyone should move to the Linux desktop, an IBM ...

A three-year deal for IBM to provide software, hardware and services to the global petroleum industry has the potential to make Linux the standard platform for oil and gas exploration and production.