Sean Michael Kerner

The ERP business is one that has long been dominated by giant enterprise software vendors like SAP and Oracle’s PeopleSoft. Microsoft has entered the fray, too, with its Dynamics applications to further make the ERP marketplace even more competitive. Into that hostile and aggressive environment walks open source ERP vendor Openbravo. The Spain-based vendor is […]

Reporter’s Notebook: AJAX (define) as an industry term has only existed for two years, though the underlying technologies have been around a lot longer. Make no mistake about it: Google brought the term and approach that is AJAX to the mainstream, and Google is continuing to be the guiding light in AJAX development today. There […]

Turns out Oracle CEO Larry Ellison does have a few friends and one of them is HP. Earlier this week Ellison claimed that Oracle had displaced Red Hat at search engine giant Yahoo. But neither Yahoo nor Red Hat completely agree with Ellison’s claim. Ellison also said Oracle had signed HP, CDW and Dell as […]

NEW YORK — AJAX (define), the technology that is driving the Web 2.0, will lead to the demise of the page view as a metric for Web site success, said Edelman public relations professional and celebrated blogger Steve Rubel. Though Rubel admitted at the AJAXWorld conference here that he doesn’t have the magic sauce for […]

Novell kicked off its annual Brainshare conference yesterday with a slew of announcements, including updates for its core Linux offerings and a new enterprise thin-client solution. The announcements contain a heavy dose of virtualization management, as Red Hat just last week released its new flagship Linux, which is also heavy on virtualization. First up is […]

Ever wanted to take the window open on your desktop and set it on fire? If you happen to be running Linux, you’re in luck. Jaw-dropping 3D desktop effects first came to the Linux desktop by way of the Novell sponsored Compiz effort which got started over a year ago. An open source community fork […]

Red Hat (Quote) released the latest version of its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL) flagship product today with a flurry of new features, upgrades and improvements. The RHEL 5 release comes as Red Hat faces a multi-front battle in the operating systems space against rivals Microsoft, Novell and Oracle. In this release, Red Hat is […]

Open Source business intelligence vendor JasperSoft wasn’t always an open source vendor. JasperSoft made the decision to become open source just over two-and-a-half years ago and since then has become a leading open source business intelligence vendor. The business intelligence vendor recently added the final pillar to its solution suite with the release of JasperETL […]

For more than a decade, PHP developers have had little choice in where they actually get the latest version of PHP: either PHP.net or as a package from a Linux distribution. Zend, the commercial backer of PHP, is now offering another choice. Zend Core 2.0, the first Zend Core release for the broader PHP community, […]

Red Hat has entered into what its calling a partnership with privately held tools vendor Exadel. The deal calls for three Exadel products to be open sourced and rebranded as Red Hat products and is all part of a bigger plan that will culminate this summer in a new Red Hat Developer Program. Exadel’s RichFaces […]