Microsoft last week made available for free its Services for Unix software, which helps integrate Unix and Windows, and supports migrations of Unix applications to the Microsoft platform. Microsoft ...

There are many ways to move files between Unix and Windows. In my mind, they fall into three categories — secure copy (let’s not even think about ftp), shared drives, and file synchronization. Each ...

In a twist of irony, the Unix platform celebrates its 40th birthday this year, as does the man whose work probably has done more to diminish the trendiness of Unix than anyone else: Linux founder ...

You’ve got a smooth running Windows network. Now some exec decides that a Unix/Linux application has to be brought in as a business-critical platform. Not that they know it’s a Unix/Linux app, just ...

As they always do in IT, the rules are changing when it comes to which operating system belongs in which role in the enterprise. The old formula was Unix on the high-end application servers and ...

COMMENTARY--Any fair-sized enterprise has both Unix and Windows systems in it. The rise of internet protocols like HTTP has given us a basis for some level of universal interoperability, but many ...

Vintela was just another platform integration company until Microsoft recently decided to make a multimillion-dollar investment in it. What attracted Microsoft to Vintela was that its tools allow IT ...

The lack of expertise in the Linux operating system has led an industrial tools maker to opt for Windows. Malaysia-based Hard Metal Knives managing director Tan Lip Kee told ZDNet Asia in a telephone ...

HP releases server speed-test results that for the first time compare its version of Unix with Microsoft's Windows on the company's top-end Itanium server. And the winner is... Stephen Shankland ...

Now is a particularly good time to ditch Windows for good, for workstations as well as servers. For instance, now that Microsoft stopped supporting Windows Server 2003 on July 13, you’ll need to find ...