Sean Michael Kerner

UPDATED: The Web browser is the most basic common unit of the Internet experience for much of the global community. It’s also one of the most attacked. And it’s not just the bad guys breaking the browsers anymore, but also the browser vendors. On Wednesday, Mozilla will take a massive step forward and explain to […]

Apparently patents do matter when it comes to open source software adoption. In a teleconference preview ahead of next week’s LinuxWorld conference, Matthew Lawton, director of IDC’s Worldwide Software Business Strategies Group, revealed the results of a non-public survey of IT end users about their attitudes toward software in general and open source in particular. […]

Microsoft wants more open source software to run on Windows. Microsoft also wants its own Open Source Initiative (OSI) approved license. Perhaps they really can get along. On the software side, Microsoft Thursday announced a partnership with open source solution vendor SpikeSource to eventually certify all of SpikeSource’s SpikeIgnited solutions on the Microsoft Windows platform. […]

One of the pillars of business intelligence capabilities is something called ETL (define), an acronym standing for extract, transform and load. ETL can also be a pillar for business integration as well. ETL allows applications to take data from outside sources, turn it into something usable and then make it available for loading in a […]

The IEEE 802.3 Higher Speed Study Group (HSSG) has decided that the next speed for Ethernet will be both 40GbE and 100GbE. Originally the HHSG had planned on doing just 100GbE, but industry feedback changed the plans somewhat. “The reason for the two rates is because the two areas of applications have different growth rates […]

Multiple cores are the norm now for chip-makers, though application developers don’t always develop in ways that take advantage of more than one processor core. How do you bridge the divide? Intel thinks the key is by making a cornerstone development tool for parallelism open source. To that end Intel is open sourcing Intel Threading […]

What is the impact on Linux distribution usage of the Novell patent deal with Microsoft? According to open source enterprise content management (ECM) vendor Alfresco, it’s driving users to Red Hat. Alfresco asked 15,000 people between April and June about the way they deploy Alfresco’s ECM solution. According to the Alfresco survey, Red Hat users […]

John Newton, CTO and chairman of open source enterprise content management (ECM) vendor Alfresco, is certainly no stranger to the industry. Newton was one of the founding engineers at Ingres working on one of the first commercial relational databases. In the ECM space, he’s best known as the co-founder of ECM vendor Documentum, which was […]

It crawls the Web without malice seeking out every possible bit of content. It’s name is Googlebot, and sometimes it gets to see things on the Web that the rest of don’t. Unless of course you pretend to be Googlebot. Superficially spoofing Googlebot, Google’s Web crawler, is not a difficult thing to do and was […]

Intel (Quote) is pushing its mobile Linux development efforts with Moblin.org, a new resource site for open source projects focused on the development of Linux for Intel-based devices. The site has already posted an initial list of projects that it will undertake, including key components such as the kernel, browser, power management framework and a […]