IDC reports Windows and Linux have moved up a notch in the server market, while Unix and z/OS slipped. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital ...

Two weeks ago, a server running Windows triumphed in a key speed test for the first time. Now a new IBM computer has won the crown back for Unix. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Windows servers accounted for $17.7 billion in revenues last year, the Framingham, Mass.-based research company said, while Unix-powered servers took in $17.5 billion. Linux, the open-source offshoot ...

Long the server operating system of choice for corporations and universities, Unix has seen its lead in the server OS market slip in recent years. Both Windows and Linux have been eating away at Unix ...

While the Unix server business has lost much of its glamour in the face of assaults from Windows, Linux, and the cloud, there is still plenty of life -- and growth -- in the business, although for the ...

Windows narrowly bumped Unix in 2005 to claim the top spot in server sales for the first time, according to a new report from IDC. Computer makers sold $17.7 billion worth of Windows servers worldwide ...