Sean Michael Kerner

Interop is often a time when new alliances are announced, though some never amount to anything more than a press release. The OpenSEA (Open Secure Edge Access) alliance, which was announced in May just ahead of the Las Vegas Interop show, is trying to prove that it’s more than just a one-shot announcement with its […]

Citrix as a company has always been about application delivery. As its iForum user conference kicks off today in Las Vegas Citrix will demonstrate its growth as an end-to-end application virtualization vendor as well. The virtualization technology comes by way of Citrix’s acquisition of open source virtualization vendor XenSource for $500 million which was announced […]

Ubuntu Linux and its corporate sponsor Canonical claim to be ready for the enterprise challenge on the desktop and the server. Ubuntu’s 7.10 release, code-named Gutsy Gibbon, includes a slew of updates to both the server and the desktop that improve usability and security as the open source startup challenges both its open source peers […]

It’s about to get a whole lot easier for web developers to develop Ajax rich internet applications. The Eclipse Foundation today is formally releasing its Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform (RAP) 1.0 application which brings the Eclipse plug in model to web developers. “RAP is a runtime project and it’s the first Ajax middleware project that […]

The first patent suit filed against Linux has hit the courts, with a patent holder taking aim at enterprise Linux vendors Red Hat and Novell. The suit, filed in a Texas state court by intellectual property firm IP Innovation LLC, claims that the Linux vendors are infringing on its U.S. Patent No. 5,072,412. The patent, […]

With billions of mobile devices in use today and only more expected in the near future, software vendors of all stripes are looking to wireless platforms to expand. That’s true even for established PC Web browser vendors like Mozilla, which this week announced a new push to bring its popular Firefox offering to the mobile […]

With a major new kernel point release, Linux this week continues inching its way toward becoming a real-time OS, and ideally winning new converts in key industry verticals and embedded designs. Among the many driver additions, bug fixes and updates in Linux kernel 2.6.23 — the OS’s fourth large kernel point release of the year […]

Novell is continuing its push toward Linux with the release Monday of its Open Enterprise Server 2 (OES 2). OES 2 enables Novell’s NetWare users to run NetWare in a paravirtualized environment on top of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. The OES 2 release is intended to help NetWare users migrate to Linux by providing them […]

Juniper Networks is updating its unified access control (UAC) technology in a new release that expands the capabilities and definition of what network access control is all about. Network access control (NAC) ensures network access is only granted to validated and properly secured endpoints. NAC as a security approach can do a lot more than […]

Microsoft has removed the controversial Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) validation requirement in the Internet Explorer 7 installation process, thus opening the experience to users of all versions of Windows — including pirated ones. “Because Microsoft takes its commitment to help protect the entire Windows ecosystem seriously, we’re updating the IE7 installation experience to make it […]