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It should come as no surprise that when the State of the VAR Market survey numbers came in, Microsoft Corp.'s NT was once again king of the hill in operating […]

Today, we think nothing of the customer that runs mission-critical applications supporting thousands of users entirely on Unix. But the truth is, what the Unix channel has accomplished since the […]

There's one thing for certain in the Unix world: VARs are playing a larger role. In a variety of areas-from recommending hardware, software and peripherals to performing needs analyses-the percentage […]

Unix is moving onto new, powerful PCs, and a new 32-bit operating system from Microsoft is moving onto workstations. With the two systems encroaching on each other's territories, a fight [...]

Demand is increasing for Unix System workstations. These workstations cost almost as much as personal computers yet offer 25 millions-of-instructions-per-second of central processing power, superior resolution and greater windowing capability. Sun Microsystems Computer Corp leads other computer firms, holding 36% of the Unix workstation market. Stiffer competition is predicted as both prominent and small-scale computer frims race for a share of the workstation market.

After long delay, the Open Software Foundation (OSF) plans to release OSF/1 next month. But that release may elicit more yawns that cheers. Reasons: * The potential for mix-and-match; * […]

While most Unix VARs target vertical markets, horizontal VARs make up a sizable chunk of the universe. They account for 40 percent of respondents in VARBusiness' fifth annual Unix study. […]

The NT v. UNIX technology war is front-page news in some communities. To date, NT is winning the perceptions war by applying expert brand marketing. Now, the major UNIX forces […]

Hewlett-Packard and Sun opt for different approaches as they look to make Unix and Windows NT coexist It has become a perplexing issue for IT managers:how to maximize server performance […]

The Internet boom, data warehousing and the downsizing trend are giving Unix VARs a boost. VARs say Unix is well established in corporate America, and in many cases has entered […]

Internet, reengineering, and client-server systems boost venerable operating system Call it the Cal Ripken Syndrome. While Microsoft's Windows NT operating system garnered the lion's share of publicity and Novell's NetWare […]

The Unix systems market recovered sharply in 1994 and enters 1995 with good momentum. HP looks like a world beater, IBM should accelerate, and Digital has surprisingly good Unix growth. […]

Heavyweights descend on the fault-tolerant Unix market Once the domain of a handful of small companies, the market for Unix-based, fault-tolerant computers is now attracting such industry heavyweights as Stratus […]

When your image is in the trash, will giving away cash and cars remove the stench? SCO Group, best known as the company that sued Linux users and vendors, hopes […]

Now that Hewlett-Packard's merger with Compaq is a done deal, the company is moving forward rapidly to build on its already considerable business with service providers. The mantra for HP's […]

THE LINUX community made its strongest showing to date at Comdex last week featuring its first Linux Business Expo, keynotes from three top executives, and several product unveilings from its […]

THE 64-bit Unix on Intel chip alliance Monterey has gained partners and says it is on schedule for delivering its operating system when the new Intel chips are available. Monterey […]

A funny thing happened on the road to software domination. Microsoft no longer appears to be on the top of everyone's mind, and that is not necessarily a good thing […]

Redmond, Wash.: The battle between Unix and Windows NT is turning into a war over which side can deliver the best solution to integrate the two operating systems. This week […]

New York: Hewlett-Packard Co. will redirect the flow of its high-end business so that 80 percent of its Unix sales will go through the channel in the next two years. […]

Unix. The wirehead's operating system. Even the name betrays its origins in the dusty corners of AT&T's fabled Bell Labs in the early 1970s (did the acronym ever stand for […]

The performance line separating Windows NT-based Pentium Pro workstations from more traditional Unix solutions is becoming narrower, and soon could disappear. Despite some technology issues, VARs and integrators specializing in […]

New York -- Distributors that built their businesses around Unix platforms are finding Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT harder to ignore. The Windows NT operating system's popularity is spreading like water […]

###Eric Hausman New York - The leading channel players are quickly trying to increase Unix-based sales in an effort to take advantage of higher profit margins and improving vendor policies. […]

New York--When systems integrator The Qualix Group first started selling Unix systems five years ago, it was mostly to engineers for computer-aided-design applications. Over the past two years, Unix sales […]

Florham Park, N.J. Novell Inc. is scaling back its operating system source code development and instead focusing efforts on its upcoming SuperNOS project, according to numerous sources. Nearly three years […]

Users of Unix desktop computers from IBM, Hewlett-Packard Co., and Sun Microsystems Inc. will not be able to run unmodified Macintosh applications before the end of the year, as Apple […]

Novell Inc., through its Univel subsidiary, is attempting to do what no one vendor has managed to accomplish in the last 20 years: create a single, mass-market version of the […]

While the world waits to see if the U.S. Federal Trade Commission will put the kibosh on Microsoft Corp., Redmond, Wash., Chairman Bill Gates and his merry band continue to […]

To lure users before archrival Microsoft Corp. releases Windows NT, Univel has slashed the price of UnixWare and reworked it to handle both MS-DOS and Windows applications. 'I think the […]