Sean Michael Kerner

The open source Drupal content management system is going commercial thanks to a new company, called Acquia, that’s led by Dries Buytaert, the founder of the Drupal project. The new effort is aiming to bring a commercially supported version of Drupal to business users and could well end up shaking up the entire content management […]

The need for speed in operating systems is never-ending. In the newly released FreeBSD 7.0, speed is a key improvement with gains of up to 1,500 percent at high load utilization over its predecessors in the FreeBSD 6.x branch. While performance improvements are a key aspect of FreeBSD, it’s not necessarily the most important new […]

Paul Frields is new to Red Hat, but he’s not new to the Fedora Linux community. Frields became the Fedora project leader and a Red Hat employee at the beginning of February. Previously Frields was a U.S. government employee and a contributor to the Fedora community for more than four years. Frields takes over at […]

The idea that Open Source users use only open source tools to evaluate and deploy open source solutions may not be entirely accurate — if a recent study is any indicator. In its second annual Open Source Barometer study, open source content management vendor Alfresco found that hybrid uses of LAMP — the acronym for […]

Standards are important for Linux, especially when they define the base operating components both Linux distributions and software vendors can develop against. The goal of the Linux Standards Base (LSB) has long been to be the base that helps to prevent Linux fragmentation and promote inter-Linux vendor interoperability. The LSB defines a core set of […]

Open source storage startup Cleversafe is moving into the second stage of its evolution, with new hardware appliances built on top of its core open source dispersed storage network technology. The new products provide access, storage and management capabilities in hardware appliances with full commercial support. Cleversafe’s DSN uses a mathematical formula known as the […]

Embattled Unix vendor SCO may get a new lease on life, thanks to a $100 million infusion aimed at helping it emerge from bankruptcy and pursue its controversial legal claims. The financing comes from Stephen Norris Capital Partners (SNCP), which will take a controlling interest in SCO as part of the deal. “Not only will […]

Red Hat is out this week with a series of initiatives to further expand and develop its JBoss middleware platform. On the commercially available product side there is the JBoss SOA (define) platform and on the community side there are three separate projects including Black Tie (for BEA Tuxedo migration), RHQ (a management effort for […]

Novell is moving farther into the collaboration market by acquiring SiteScape, an open source player in team workspaces — and a partner in an existing joint offering. As a result of the acquisition, terms of which were not disclosed, Novell plans to integrate SiteScape’s technology into its core collaboration wares, which compete against IBM’s Lotus […]

2008 marked not just the beginning of a new year for Linux vendor Red Hat, but also a new beginning for its new CEO Jim Whitehurst. Whitehurst takes over the CEO job from Matthew Szulik, who held the post until the end of 2007. Szulik joined Red Hat in 1998 and led the company through […]