In the not-too-distant past, network operating systems (NOS) pretty much meant one thing: a Novell NetWare server for managing files and printers on a local area network. For some government agencies, ...

Networks may not be the most expensive thing in the datacenter – they typically comprise about 10 percent to 15 percent of the cost of a distributed system, including cables, transceivers, switches, ...

In a deal that brings together companies that Linux backers consider bogeymen, The SCO Group announced Monday it has shook hands on a licensing agreement with Microsoft over SCO’s Unix operating ...

It has been two decades since Juniper Networks, then the big upstart rival to Cisco Systems and others as the dot-com boom was rising towards its crescendo several years hence, took FreeBSD Unix and ...

Support and usurp. This appears to be Microsoft Corp.’s Unix strategy as it launches the latest upgrade of its Windows Server operating system. At a recent media briefing in Singapore, David Lowe, ...