Later this year, IBM will deliver the zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension with support for IBM POWER7 blades running AIX, IBM's UNIX operating system.
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The chip is designed for high-end servers running the Unix operating system and has been launched with a new server designed around it.
That's in contrast to mainframe applications, or even versions of the "open" Unix operating system that were specific to a given computer manufacturer's hardware.
DEC's high-end workstations and the servers that use its blazingly fast Alpha 64-bit microprocessor and run on the Unix operating system open up new markets for Compaq.
Compaq still sells Digital's powerful Unix operating system, which competes against similar products from IBM and Sun, but Compaq's plan is to move the bulk of its customers over to the Wintel combination of Intel microprocessors and Microsoft software.
Compaq still sells Digital's powerful Unix operating system, which competes against similar products from IBM and Sun, but Compaq's long-range plan is to move the bulk of its customers over to the so-called Wintel combination of Intel microprocessors and Microsoft software.
Those on the front lines of networking, such as the telcos, Internet service providers, competitive local exchange companies and wireless operators, still prefer time-tested Unix as the operating system for networks. (Prediction: Cisco and Lucent may become the biggest threats to Microsoft over the next five years.) n Thanks to the Internet, small niche companies can reach mass markets in a heartbeat.
That's why most non-Intel hardware vendors originally chose Unix for their default operating system.
Most of these vendors chose Unix because it began as a free operating system with open source.
Apple should also consider including support for the open-source Linux operating system, as well as Unix variants.
Even OS X, the Mac's newest operating system, is based on a Unix computing approach only now hitting mainstream PC users through the migration of Linux to the desktop.
Jonathan Broskey, a former Apple employee who now heads the Army's Apple program, argues that the Unix core at the center of the Mac OS operating system makes it easier to lock down a Mac than a Windows platform.
Linux is an open source operating system developed by independent and corporate programmers worldwide which has much of the functionality of the powerful Unix system.
The growth of the free operating system, Linux, is leading all the big Unix vendors to revise their pricing.
X3A Modular Computers operate at 18Watts of power and will run any x86-based Operating System, including Windows 8 and lower, Linux, UNIX, etc.
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Designed to be used as a standalone machine or in clustered configurations, the X7A will run any x86-based Operating System, including Windows 8 and lower, Linux, UNIX, etc.
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