Big Blue plans to release a new top-end Unix server in 2004, a 64-processor machine code-named Armada that will feature the company's coming Power5 processor. Stephen Shankland Former Principal Writer ...

IBM and corporate software powerhouse SAP have made plans to bring SAP's software to Big Blue mainframes running Linux. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

Days before the start of LinuxWorld in late January, the computer giant unveiled the launch of two Linux-only servers: a mainframe aimed at enterprises and an Intel-based server for the SMB market.

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 ...