Updating the love it has for Linux, IBM argues that the relatively new operating system has begun fulfilling its potential as mainstream customers build serious servers with it. Stephen Shankland ...

One of the paradoxes of the industry is that while IBM is an ardent supporter of Linux as an open-source operating system, it has a more proprietary approach to the middleware given its history with ...

Adam Jollans, Linux strategy manager for IBM, discusses in an interview with IDG News Service how he sees Linux adoption evolving across vertical industries and in businesses both small and large, and ...

The mainframe, the hardware stalwart that has existed for decades, is continuing to be a force in the modern era. Among the vendors that still build mainframes is IBM, which today announced the latest ...

Al Zollar, a general manager of sales for IBM eServer iSeries, told delegates attending the company's Asia Pacific Strategic Planning Conference in Queensland, Australia, on Tuesday that a "set of ...

WASHINGTON – IBM and Oracle have both launched efforts to get the Linux operating system a security certification required by the U.S. Department of Defense, so that Linux vendors aren’t cut off from ...

Red Hat, IBM, and Novell remain the top contributors to the Linux kernel, an open source project that has grown by 2.7 million lines of code over the past 16 months, according to a report put out by ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

I can set up a Linux desktop from bare metal to working customized desktop in about an hour. I can set up several dozens Linux desktops for an SMB (small to medium sized business) in a day. I can’t, ...