Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at a PDP-11. Peter Hamer [CC BY-SA 2.0] Last week the computing world celebrated an important anniversary: the UNIX operating system turned 50 years old. What was ...

Support and usurp. This appears to be Microsoft Corp.’s Unix strategy as it launches the latest upgrade of its Windows Server operating system. At a recent media briefing in Singapore, David Lowe, ...

It has been two decades since Juniper Networks, then the big upstart rival to Cisco Systems and others as the dot-com boom was rising towards its crescendo several years hence, took FreeBSD Unix and ...