Sean Michael Kerner

Mozilla has finally, after much delay, put its new book-marking system in a Firefox build. Places, originally expected to be a key part of Firefox 2.x but dropped well before the final release, is included in the Alpha 5 of Firefox 3, code-named Gran Paradiso. Places is expected to replace the decade-old bookmark system with […]

After nearly two years of development, the open source Apache Synapse enterprise service bus (ESB) is ready for prime time with its 1.0 milestone release. ESBs (define) enable various applications and components to communicate with each other in a predictable way for service-oriented architecture (SOA) (define). With the 1.0 release, Apache Synapse has gone beyond […]

One year from now the U.S. government will be running IPv6 (define) across its IT infrastructure. Maybe. In the third volume of its report to the government about IPv6 transition, Juniper Networks outlined some of the key challenges and initiatives the government will have to undertake in order to meet the federally mandated IPv6 transition […]

Enterprise CIOs typically have to make a platform decision about whether they will run enterprise applications on JavaEE or .NET 2.0. It’s a decision that can also limit the development options available to developers. Software vendor Mainsoft has been offering an open source Mono-based .NET solution called Visual MainWin, which helped solve the issue for […]

UPDATED: Novell was the first Linux vendor to get Microsoft’s intellectual property assurance pledge. But it might not be the last. Xandros and Microsoft today announced they have entered into an agreement that, on the surface, is remarkably similar to the one forged between Microsoft and Novell last year. As part of the deal, Xandros […]

The Xen open source project released Xen 3.1 hypervisor with a little help from Intel, IBM, Novell, VA Linux (Japan), HP, Fujitsu, SGI, Red Hat, AMD, Sun, Unisys and the National Security Agency. Xen 3.1 extends the open source virtualization technology with new API support, improved 64-bit paravirtualization and a feature for moving virtual machines […]

LAS VEGAS — In a town where gambling is the primary industry, Ethernet supporters want to prove it’s never a good idea to bet against the 30-year-old technology. That is the goal of the year-old Ethernet Alliance, a multi-vendor group that promotes and demonstrates the latest and greatest in Ethernet standards technology. At its birthday […]

LAS VEGAS — Did you know that the growth of networking spending is outpacing all other sectors of IT? Abner Germanow, director of enterprise networking at IDC, gave his reasons why to a standing-room only audience during a session here at Interop. According to Germanow’s IDC data, enterprise networking growth was 17 percent in 2006. […]

The IPv4 address (define) space is finite and nearing exhaustion. The answer is IPv6 (define), but that’s for the federal government and big business to deal with and is not something that smaller enterprise or even home office users can do anything about, right? Not so fast. A 20-person startup called Hexago is set to […]

The network access control (NAC) landscape is about to change on news today that Microsoft NAP and standards organization Trusted Computing Group’s Trusted Network Connect (TNC) are now interoperable. The market for NAC is a competitive one, with the majority of solutions being compatible with one of three overriding frameworks: Cisco NAC, NAP or TNC. […]