The Unix underpinnings of Mac OS make it feel familiar and accessible to programmers used to working in Unix-like environments. Apple’s Xcode IDE and other development tools are thoughtfully crafted ...

DirectControl lets more than 100 platforms use Active Directory for their security needs such an authentication, authorization and group policy. Centrify is strengthening the integration bridge it has ...

London-based mi2g Intelligence Unit on Tuesday released a report that says Mac OS X and Berkeley Standard Distribution (BSD) Unix are the “world’s safest and most secure 24/7 online computing ...

Do any of these situations describe your company? * You have a heterogeneous computing environment that includes a mix of Windows, Unix and Linux systems. * Because of disparate platforms, you are ...

IDC reports Windows and Linux have moved up a notch in the server market, while Unix and z/OS slipped. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital ...

To the chagrin of purists, the complaint most often aired by Unix users (by that I mean Unix, Linux, and BSD) is Unix’s inability to run Windows applications. There are several approaches to counter ...

Windows servers accounted for $17.7 billion in revenues last year, the Framingham, Mass.-based research company said, while Unix-powered servers took in $17.5 billion. Linux, the open-source offshoot ...

Apple's Mac OS continued to move up among operating systems accessing the Web, while Windows 7 jumped up after Microsoft released its public beta, according to Net Applications. Jon Skillings is an ...

Apple’s efforts with Mac OS X may bring UNIX into the mainstream. That’s the word from Peter Jackson, writing for AnchorDesk UK in an article entitled Another bite of the Apple. Jackson said that UNIX ...

The number of new vulnerabilities announced by software vendors or discovered by users so far this year totaled 1,162, of which a record 309 were found last month, mi2g reported. Of the ...

To many, free open source software and Microsoft Windows seem to be mutually exclusive. After all, the open source development model is most closely associated with the Linux OS and, to a lesser ...