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Sean Michael Kerner

Sean Michael Kerner is an Internet consultant, strategist, and contributor to several leading IT business web sites.

Will Mozilla’s Fuzzer Break The Web?

UPDATED: The Web browser is the most basic common unit of the Internet experience for much of the global community....

IDC: Patents Inhibit Open Source Adoption

Apparently patents do matter when it comes to open source software adoption. In a teleconference preview ahead of next week's...

Microsoft Inches Closer to Open Source

Microsoft wants more open source software to run on Windows. Microsoft also wants its own Open Source Initiative (OSI) approved...

Open Source ETL Takes On Proprietary Intelligence

One of the pillars of business intelligence capabilities is something called ETL (define), an acronym standing for extract, transform...

Ethernet Headed For 40, 100GbE

The IEEE 802.3 Higher Speed Study Group (HSSG) has decided that the next speed for Ethernet will be both 40GbE...

Intel Open Sources Building-Block Tech

Multiple cores are the norm now for chip-makers, though application developers don't always develop in ways that take advantage of...

Does The Microsoft-Novell Pact Favor Red Hat?

What is the impact on Linux distribution usage of the Novell patent deal with Microsoft? According to open source...

Alfresco: Competing in the Enterprise

John Newton, CTO and chairman of open source enterprise content management (ECM) vendor Alfresco, is certainly no stranger to...

Spoofing Googlebot

It crawls the Web without malice seeking out every possible bit of content. It's name is Googlebot, and sometimes it...

Intel’s Mobile Linux Initiative Misses Vendor Mark?

Intel (Quote) is pushing its mobile Linux development efforts with Moblin.org, a new resource site for open source projects focused...