COMMENTARY--Quietly, in what sometimes seems like stealth mode, Linux systems have been moving from the front end of e-commerce to the back end. The commerce-grade Linux database has come of age. As ...

Some observers attribute the growth of Linux servers to the migration of lower-end platforms, such as old Windows NT or Novell file and print boxes, to Linux. The open source operating system is still ...

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IBM announced Wednesday that it is rolling out a new version of its database software for Linux and Unix customers. The DB2 Universal Database version 8.2, code-named Stinger, is designed to ...

Renault's Formula 1 team is one of the first to test the database software Microsoft has produced a version of its database software that runs on the rival Linux operating system. The version of SQL ...

Database sales posted strong gains in 2003, with IBM and Microsoft winning market share but Oracle benefiting the most from the rise of Linux, according to a new report from Gartner Dataquest. Gartner ...

In previous articles, I have discussed XML’s value as a data format for Linux users. I have also discussed a wide variety of Linux tools for processing XML. But the data that XML usually represents ...

When it comes to building extreme scale computing platforms, there are plenty of system design options but in supercomputing, the only practical choice for an OS is Linux. A team from MIT and Sandia ...