Thor Olavsrud

With an eye to beefing up server consolidation on Intel-based servers, Microsoft confirmed Wednesday that it has acquired some assets from partner

In January, at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, Linux distribution firms Caldera International and Turbolinux were busy preaching a new strategy:

Escalating an already heated rivalry with Sun Microsystems, IBM Monday launched a new line of midrange servers that pressures its rival on price.

Seeking to break open the high-end open systems server and storage markets in the United States, Fujitsu Ltd. Tuesday will reinvent the server and storage

In a move that has Java developers up in arms, Microsoft Corp. dropped support of the cross-platform Java language in the recent beta version -- Release

But Yankee Group Analyst Neal Goldman said Microsoft's decision to discontinue support for Java likely has more to do with the settlement the company

NEW YORK -- Compaq Computer Corp. began an aggressive push into the data center with the launch of its ProLiant BL e-Class server blade, code-named

Moving to profit from SCO Group's revocation of IBM's Unix license (which IBM denies SCO has the right to do), Sun Microsystems charged in to play the

Microsoft took its Windows Server 2003 code gold Friday, releasing the code to manufacturers and readying it for the product launch in San Francisco on