Big Blue puts more weight behind its effort to attract customers to Linux that runs on its own Power processors, an initiative that distinguishes IBM from its competitors in the server market. Stephen ...

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Facing a slowing Unix market, IBM Corp. released its Power6 processor on Monday, its fastest chip yet for high-end servers. The chip runs at double the speed of its Power5 line, but uses the same ...

IBM on Thursday will announce the opening of a technology center geared to lure financial services companies to servers using the Linux operating system. IBM initially will fund the New York center ...

Executives at the computer giant say the p630 will run the Linux operating system natively and will ship without AIX,the proprietary technology that helped fuel growth of the company's legacy RS/6000 ...

IBM has begun a new program to rent out processing power on its own supercomputers, signing up a petrochemical company as a first customer. Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) is renting out more than ...

The National Weather Service (NWS) is replacing outdated Unix-based computers from Hewlett-Packard Co. with new IBM IntelliStation computers running Linux. The move should speed up the delivery of ...