Sean Michael Kerner

If you thought that most open source developers work for open source companies, you might well be wrong. According to a survey from open source services vendor OpenLogic, 50 percent of its respondents actually work for a proprietary vendor. The OpenLogic study aims to put into focus why people contribute to open source in the […]

Bowing to stiff resistance from U.S. regulators, Bain Capital has reversed course in its $2.2 billion bid to buy networking giant 3Com. The move comes just a day before 3Com (NASDAQ: COMS) planned a shareholder vote on its proposed acquisition by Bain. The deal also involved another firm, China-based Huawei Technologies, taking a minority stake […]

UPDATED: NEW YORK — There is no shortage of hype around developing for the Apple iPhone. Moving beyond the hype there are also real tools, among them an open source tool from Ajax vendor Aptana. In a standing-room-only session at the iPhone Summit segment of the AjaxWorld conference, Kevin Hakman, director of product marketing at […]

NEW YORK — Douglas Crockford, the creator of JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) (define) and a senior JavaScript Architect at Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) is convinced that the Web is broken. During a keynote at AjaxWorld conference here, Crockford launched a polemic against the Web as it is exists today. “The question is not should we fix the […]

Back in 2004, the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) helped the Linux community to build something called SELinux, which brings mandatory access control (MAC) policies to the Linux kernel. Now four years later, Sun is getting the same technology from the NSA to use with its Solaris operating system. Sun’s OpenSolaris community will work on […]

When it comes to security, technology isn’t necessary the only solution — especially when the people using the technology are part of the security problem. That’s the key message coming from networking giant Cisco (NYSE:CSCO). Cisco’s assertion comes as it reveals that security spending could well be on the rise in 2008. According to results […]

While a number of players in the networking space had a great year in 2007, telecom vendor Nortel was not one of them. The company reported its fourth-quarter and 2007 results yesterday, and they weren’t pretty — with both financial and personnel losses. Nortel reported a net loss for 2007 that totaled $957 million ($1.98 […]

Think all the good domain names are taken? Think again. If the latest set of statistics from VeriSign is any indication, there are still a lot of domain names to go around. VeriSign reported that in 2007 there were 33 million new domain registrations, bringing the total number of domains registered to 153 million. The […]

For the last two years, AOL has been promoting its OpenAIM initiative as a vehicle to enable developers to build their own AIM (AOL Instant Messenger)-based clients. But there were issues with documentation that got in the way of some projects. With the release of Open AIM 2.0 Wednesday, AOL is aiming AIM at open […]

Networking giant Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) is spending a quarter of a billion dollars on a new routing platform that could change the entire networking landscape. Cisco’s new Aggregation Services Router (ASR) 1000 platform is a WAN (define)aggregation platform that includes firewall, Session Border Control (SBC), VPN and other core networking features. “This is a new category […]