Sean Michael Kerner

Though the final release of the open source GPL version 3 license is still likely several months away, software vendors are already ramping up their efforts to help track violations. While the new license is intended to help extend and protect software freedom, there are at least two software vendors that are likely to profit […]

The Linux Foundation is updating the Linux Standards Base (LSB) and making it easier for Linux vendors and application developers to ensure compliance. The goal of the LSB has long been to define a core set of APIs and libraries so ISVs can develop and port applications that will work on LSB-certified Linux distributions. LSB […]

Internet application testing vendor RadView plans to migrate its flagship product to an open source model using the General Public License (GPL), internetnews.com has learned. The announcement is expected to be made on Wednesday April 11. The move to open source its products could have implications for commercial vendors in the sector, such as Hewlett-Packard’s […]

Tagging has taken off in the Web 2.0 world as a way to organize and find items of interest. And for the most part they’ve existed only in the browser view of the Web. In the upcoming Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0 release, tags will move to the e-mail world, too. The new feature could well serve […]

Virtualization (define) isn’t only about supporting a virtualized operating system. Storage and security are key support sectors in any enterprise IT environment, real or virtual. XenSource, the commercial vendor behind the open source Xen project, has this crazy quilt of complexity in mind with its latest product release called XenEnterprise 3.2. Is it a Xen way […]

Oracle (Quote) is working hard to release the next version of Oracle Enterprise Linux, which is based on the recently released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Oracle said it has at least 25 customer wins for its Oracle Enterprise Linux, including at least one customer that it shares with arch-rival Red Hat (Quote). If recent […]

Thanks to the Novell-sponsored open source Mono effort and its contributors, the idea of cross-platform ASP.NET development isn’t a dream. It’s a reality. But how quickly can you go from being only conceptually possible to becoming a reality and then deployed? For the winner of the first round of the Race to Linux 2 contest, […]

IBM (Quote) is heating up the open source middleware space with a new migration tool for moving from Red Hat’s JBoss Application Server to Apache Geronimo. IBM claims that the Apache model offers greater community collaboration that what JBoss offers, a claim that Red Hat disputes. Millions of dollars are at stake in the hotly-contested open […]

New language in the third draft of the GNU General Public License (define), GPL v3, has the potential to reach beyond big Linux vendors with its proposed licensing rules that govern how most open source software is deployed and modified. Some of the terms in the just-released draft also have the potential to adjust software […]

Mozilla developers are keeping up the pace on the development of their next-generation Firefox 3.0 browser with the Alpha 3 release, adding more under-the-hood improvements to security and its offline capabilities. Development began on Firefox 3.0, code-named Gran Paradiso, around October when Firefox 2.0 was released. Gran Paradiso hit its Alpha 2 release in early […]