Last month Apple announced it was releasing to developers source code for a few key components of its Mac OS X Server operating system.
In his previous company, Valence Research, Bain developed a distributed Web load-balancing software solution that was acquired by Microsoft and is now called Network Load Balancing within the Windows Server operating system.
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Open source software such as Apache Web server and the Linux server operating system have become popular systems to run not only on network servers, but also on server appliances (servers dedicated to single tasks such as e-mail and Web site hosting).
"Whether you're talking about a desktop or a server, the operating system is doing most of the job, " McCarron said.
Lesswatts.org will host a group of software developers working to build Linux operating system upgrades that use server hardware more efficiently and save energy.
In bringing Ubuntu to the phone, Canonical is uniquely placed with a single operating system for client, server and cloud, and a unified family of interfaces for the phone, the PC and the TV.
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After some investigation, the problem appeared to be in the Linux network file system (NFS) kernel, the piece of the operating system responsible for some basic server functions.
But he batted down any suggestion that Intel's Red Hat investment was a warning to Microsoft, which wants to win corporate hearts and wallets with its NT operating system running on Intel-based server machines.
The first is the commoditisation of the operating system on both the workstation and the server.
Many of you and your IT organizations began to evaluate and consider server virtualization technology a couple of years ago as a way to move beyond the legacy IT model of having a single operating system instance bound to a single physical server.
The chip is designed for high-end servers running the Unix operating system and has been launched with a new server designed around it.
It has 95% market share in the productivity software market, 75% share in the operating system market and approximately 75% share in the server software market.
The ballyhooed Linux operating system, which is free, has made inroads in the server market, but not on the desktop, for want of applications.
Competition from rival open source operating system, Linux, is stalling Microsoft's growth in the server market, but desktop dominance remains intact: Windows installed in 94% of PCs being sold.
Dataquest, a San Jose research firm, also predicts big things the operating system, saying Linux will account for almost a quarter of worldwide server appliance revenue by the year 2003.
VMware also benefits by creating even more demand for its cloud-level operating system, and staves off competitors that also want to create meta-server environments, like Microsoft.
Currently, Chrome follows standard industry practices to resolve Web addresses: Chrome sends a request to the underlying operating system which reaches out to another computer on the Internet known as a DNS server.
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But more recently, users of Apple's newest operating system, OS X, have again been left out of the exclusive club that the Exchange server can sometimes seem to be.
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