The race to become the operating system of the Internet is just beginning to heat up. It’s no longer about Windows vs. Linux vs. Unix. Or Intel vs. SPARC. The focus of this scenario is on the ...

Sun Microsystems is bundling its application server software into its Solaris operating system in a move that could change the competitive landscape in a lucrative market. As reported previously by ...

Ultimately, every problem in the constantly evolving IT software stack becomes a database problem, which is why there are 418 different databases and datastores in the DB Engines rankings and there ...

Let me paint a picture for you. I was running a virtual instance of another Linux operating system this morning with VirtualBox. Everything was going fine (as it usually does) until it wasn't. The ...

How necessary is an operating system? That question would have been considered superfluous a decade ago, possibly even blasphemous and career-limiting. But it now is beginning to surface in low-power ...

Maintaining a secure Windows environment in the enterprise may seem a daunting task. Though there are many elements to consider — antivirus protection, intrusion detection and personal firewalls — ...

Lauded for avoiding the typical vague, high-level survey approach found in many texts, earlier editions of this bestselling book removed the mystery by explaining the internal structure of an ...