Sean Michael Kerner

Make no mistake about it, the world is moving to Ethernet. According to a new report from Infonetics Research, the global market revenues for service provider routers and switches was $9.6 billion in 2006, a 33 percent increase over the $7.2 billion recorded in 2005. Ethernet and IP are among the driving factors for the […]

Who said you can’t make money by supporting free community-based Linux distributions? HP is making $25 million by supporting the free Debian GNU/Linux distribution in what may ultimately turn out to be a challenge to commercial distributions from Novell and Red Hat. HP announced in August 2005 it would be offering support services for Debian, […]

The 802.1x port-based security standard is often considered the best method of security for network access control (NAC) implementations. But that’s not to say that all 802.1x implementations are always secure and bug-free. Cisco this week reported that a pair of its 802.1x supplicants (an 802.1x component used in the client endpoints) had flaws that, […]

NEW YORK — How much money can a large enterprise save by migrating to open source from proprietary? In Novell’s case, it’s millions of dollars. During an address at the recent Linuxworld OpenSolutions Summit here, Debra Anderson CIO of Novell, detailed how Novell has transitioned to open source from proprietary for its own operations. It’s […]

NEW YORK — When the the third draft of the General Public License (define) comes out, look for language that addresses the recent Microsoft-Novell patent deal. Members of the Free Software Foundation, which oversees the draft change process for the GPL, said a new patent clause is being inserted in the draft that could effectively thwart […]

NEW YORK — Reporter’s Notebook: Open source is more than just Linux. It’s more than just infrastructure and it can save you money. These were some of the messages to float out of the LinuxWorld Open Solutions Summit in New York this week. No need to stop the presses on these revelations, but the case […]

While many Americans were focused on the sports spectacle known as the Super Bowl last Sunday, Linus Torvalds was focused on releasing a new Linux kernel. Version 2.6.20 of the kernel includes a bevy of fixes and features, notably the introduction of KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) virtualization to the mainline kernel (define). KVM virtualization in […]

A new open source advocacy group is about to launch with a focus on applications rather than open source standards, internetnews.com has learned. The new group could well prove to be the missing link between standards and application interoperability that the open source market has been missing. The group, to be announced next week at […]

Developers have no guarantees when they open source an application. In many cases, they don’t know who will use it, nor do they know how things will progress. The fairy tale version is that developers will flock to the recently open sourced application and begin to work with it, immediately adding value for all involved. […]

Call it Red Hat’s (Quote) forward spin velocity regarding Linux management tools. With competition such as Oracle offering full Red Hat support on their own products, Red Hat is now expanding and improving its Linux management footprint. The leading Linux distributor told internetnews.com that it is rolling out online monitoring tool this year Red Hat […]