Sean Michael Kerner

Microsoft (Quote) is very serious about network access control, so serious that it just announced a list of 100 partner companies whose products will interoperate with its Network Access Protection (NAP) technology on Windows server. NAP is Microsoft’s policy enforcement platform that will be in full release when Windows Server, code-named Longhorn, ships later this year. […]

Linux on IBM mainframes is getting a vote of confidence from Oracle and research firm IDC. IBM (Quote) and Oracle (Quote) recently inked a deal that to garner broader support for Oracle applications running on Linux for IBM’s System z mainframe systems. IBM is responsible for hardware sales, while Oracle is responsible for Oracle software sales, according […]

Building and maintaining packages for multiple Linux distributions has never been an easy task. But Novell wants to change that with a pair of releases it hopes will make it easier to build Linux application packages and custom Linux distributions. Novell’s openSUSE Build Service and KIWI build-your-own distro efforts are aimed at building community open […]

Six weeks ago the OSDL (Open Source Development Labs) announced layoffs and the loss of its CEO. Today it announced a merger. The group has merged with the Free Standards Group (FSG) to create the Linux Foundation. Jim Zemlin, executive director of the FSG, will lead the new Linux Foundation, which will include more than […]

Oracle (Quote) is basing its Unbreakable Linux offering on Red Hat’s Linux, but the database vendor is not content to rest on Red Hat’s laurels when it comes to managing Linux. Oracle today is announcing Oracle Management Pack for Linux, which is a module for Oracle’s existing Enterprise Manager offering. Oracle claims that Management Pack for […]

Reporter’s Notebook: SCO’s recent fourth-quarter earnings call started on a somewhat ominous note. SCO spokesman Blake Stowell warned that SCO would only be taking questions about its Unix and Me Inc mobile business. Read: We will not be taking questions about our legal activities against Novell and IBM. I was on this call and, at […]

In a letter sent to SCO (Quote) customers, SCO President and CEO Darl McBride assured his customers that the company is still doing all right. In the letter, written in advance of SCO’s Jan. 17 fourth-quarter earnings report, McBride assures customers that SCO is not done yet. “Although we have had a few setbacks in […]

Research firm Gartner recently identified companies it believes are leaders and visionaries in the SSL-VPN marketplace. There are some vendors that you’d expect to see in the firm’s 3Q 2006 SSL VPN Magic Quadrant report, such as Juniper, Cisco and Aventail. But there is at least one that isn’t nearly as obvious. Microsoft (Quote) is […]

Internetnews.com editors provide an early roadmap for tech’s direction in 2007. Linux users have much to look forward to in 2007, beginning with the end of the SCO saga, which has raged on since 2003. The year will also mark the birth of a new GPL and a new flagship enterprise Linux distribution from the […]

Cisco has been in the VPN market for more than a decade, at first focusing on IPsec (define)-based VPNs and, in more recent years, advancing SSL-VPN (define). Though VPNs are considered a mature technology, there is still room for innovation. Innovations for both large-scale VPN deployments and remote access are in the works at Cisco. […]