Sean Michael Kerner

HP is among the biggest backers of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in the world. As such they’ve developed their own best practices and tools to help their customers understand what Open Source licenses their applications contain as well as helping to maintain compliance with the terms of the various licenses. In a set […]

There are a lot of companies with point products for specific WAN optimization and application acceleration needs. Certainly Cisco is among those that play in the WAN optimization and application acceleration space though for Cisco it’s about a lot more than just point products. With Cisco it’s about building what it refer to as an […]

There are some stories that get me more riled up then others. The recent news that Time Warner is now, all of a sudden, testing usage-based pricing for its residential broadband customers is once such piece of tech news. My issue isn’t with what Time Warner is trying to do. Rather, my issue is with […]

Mandriva Linux and Turbolinux are collaborating to create a common base for their respective Linux distributions. The joint effort will be called Manbo-Labs and involves developers from France, Japan and Brazil. While the Manbo-Labs effort is new, tying together multiple Linux distributions with a common base is not. In fact, Turbolinux and Conectiva Linux were […]

UPDATED: In a surprise move, Sun Microsystems today said it’s acquiring privately held open source database vendor MySQL AB for approximately $1 billion. The move is a bold one for Sun, which analysts note has been under pressure to make money from its Solaris enterprise software since it began offering it as open source. MySQL […]

Reporter’s Notebook: Nearly every year for the last decade I’ve heard some pundit or vendor proclaim from the rooftops: This is the year of the Linux desktop. Yet, year in and year out, the proclamations don’t materialize. With the innovations in the release of KDE 4 (K Desktop Environment) this week, the pundits are at […]

With a new visual interface including new themes sounds and effects as well as a semantic file manager, speed and multimedia handling improvements, KDE 4 is a major release for the Linux desktop. While many of KDE 4’s new features will be visible to end users, a lot of work has been done under the […]

Thousands of people are involved in the Linux development community, many of them lending their voices to the project on any given day. But when one voice in particular speaks, people listen: Linus Torvalds, the benevolent creator and dictator of the Linux kernel.org effort, has thrown his weight in favor of the GPL (define) version […]

IPv6 adoption (define) has a key adoption deadline looming this year, but is still facing plenty of barriers to adoption. Key among them is this: IPv6 address information is not included in most of the root DNS (define) servers that power the Internet. This makes IPv6 to IPv6 connections a difficult proposition. At a time […]

Data leakage is one of the greatest security risks facing IT organizations. The challenge of keeping confidential information secured is one that many security vendors claim to solve through different means. Among the many vendor solutions is that offered by security vendor Lumension Security, which now has a new U.S. patent to prove its “shadowing” […]