A flaw reported in the handling of regular expressions means most DNS servers running on Linux or Unix are vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks, according to security experts

HP gives customers a migration path away from its Itanium servers, says Peter Judge. That doesn't mean it wants them to leave

New HP Itanium servers and better Unix should keep customers on board

Dennis Ritchie, creator of the C language and Unix, has died after a long illness, aged 70

Unix systems continue to be a cornerstone in enterprise data centres, despite soaring sales of x86 servers

IDC has a recorded a healthy rise in demand for non-x86 servers from the likes of HP, IBM and Oracle

Intel hopes to win high-end workloads, currently running on RISC/Unix servers, with its Xeon E7 processors

The new systems are part of a year-long rollout of workload-optimised systems for the demands of emerging business models such as smart electrical grids

A U.S. District Judge has closed a seven-year-old case reaffirming that SCO's claims against Novell over ownership of the Unix operating system were unconvincing

IBM has grown its portfolio of Power7 servers with three blades systems that includes an entry-level server and a midrange blade