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 ...
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 ...
The computer giant currently offers Linux on its xSeries Intel servers, iSeries Power4 midrange servers and zSeries mainframes. The availability of native Linux on its 64-bit Unix server line fulfills ...
This week at the LinuxWorld show in San Francisco IBM unveiled a deal with the major Linux distributors: Canonical, Novell and Red Hat, to work with PC manufacturers to develop and sell what was ...