Stepping up its campaign against the Linux operating system, Microsoft Thursday released file and Web serving benchmark results that, it claims, show Linux on the mainframe lags behind Windows 2003 on ...

Firmware is the low-level software programmed into a device's read-only memory, responsible for controlling its hardware functions. In the context of routers and networking equipment, firmware ...

Linux has finally made it onto the business map in the area of database benchmarks, helping take the wind out of Microsoft Corp.'s continued contention that open-source operating systems don't make ...

Staunch Linux advocates have been saying for some time that the Unix derivative's application performance outstrips that of Windows, assuming all other factors are equal. Valve even proved it back in ...

Which server OS is the most appropriate must be argued in the context of the job that needs to be done, based on factors such as cost, performance, security and application usage. Which is better?

When Docker burst onto the scene in 2013, Linux containers seemed like an overnight success. But the evolution to containers—and microservices and Kubernetes—was actually decades in the making, based ...

Linux has finally made it onto the business map in the area of database benchmarks, helping take the wind out of Microsoft Corp.'s continued contention that open-source operating systems don't make ...