Robert McMillan

On Thursday, developers working on the open-source Samba project are expected to unveil the first major release of their Unix and Linux file server software in two years.

Advanced Digital Information Corp. (ADIC) is set to announce a new storage array Monday that's designed to speed up and improve the reliability of tape backups by integrating with users' existing backup software and tape libraries.

Stepping up its campaign against the Linux operating system, Microsoft Corp. on Thursday released file and Web serving benchmark results that, it claims, show that Linux on the mainframe lags behind Windows 2003 on Intel Corp. systems in terms of performance for the money.

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IBM Corp. will begin rolling out application provisioning software it acquired in its May acquisition of Toronto's Think Dynamics Inc. beginning next month, company officials said.

IBM Corp. next month will offer some new enhancements to its FAStT600 storage server that it says will improve its performance and double the amount of data that the system can store.

The SCO Group Inc. is zero for two in its efforts to prove that its Unix software was illegally copied into the Linux operating system, according to Linux advocate Bruce Perens, who on Wednesday said he traced a second example of SCO's disputed code and that it was lawfully included in Linux.

The SCO Group Inc. on Monday will attempt to shift the focus from its legal disputes with IBM Corp. and Red Hat Inc. by making a number of announcements relating to its SCOx Web services initiative.