IBM announces new midrange Unix servers in a tightening market that has Big Blue and its chief competitor, Sun Microsystems, at each other's throats. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

Big Blue's CIO has directed the company to begin an internal initiative to evaluate Linux for use on desktop computers, a further endorsement of the open-source operating system. Stephen Shankland ...

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 ...