Sean Michael Kerner

Oracle’s Linux offerings are gaining new support today. The support comes in the form of a string of certifications from Symantec’s (Quote) Veritas data center software products as well as new support for running Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System with Oracle Real Application Clusters on Oracle Enterprise Linux. All told, Oracle (Quote) is hailing the new […]

With all product lines, there needs to be entry-level, high- and mid-level offerings. Juniper Networks (Quote) already has introduced new entry-level and high-end devices; today the networking vendor introduced a new series of mid-level routers to round out its portfolio. The SSG 320M, SSG 350M, J2320 and J2350 further flesh out Juniper’s Secure Services Gateway (SSG) […]

The little smiley face 🙂 and its cousins, known in most circles as Emoticons, turn 25 this year. Emoticons have become common place in many forms of digital communications, from e-mail to instant messaging (IM). With IM however, all the major public IM platforms (AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft (Quote)) have made emoticons a core part […]

PC users have volumes of information saved on their computers, most of it disconnected and disparate save for a basic directory system. The answer to connecting all the information into a local semantic Web of information is closer than you might think. Thanks to the open source NEPOMUK (Networked Environment for Personalized, Ontology-based Management of […]

The third Linux kernel release of 2007 is now out with memory management and wireless among its improvements. The 2.6.22 kernel release comes after seven release candidates were put out with the first one issued in May. It includes a long list of update and improvements which Linux founder Linus Torvalds was keen to boast […]

VMware is making its Lab Manager virtual lifecycle management software more accessible with the release today of version 2.5 If an enterprise wanted to use VMware’s Lab Manager software before today and didn’t have a Fiber Channel SAN (define), time was, it was simply out of luck. That changes in the new version. “We have […]

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) has always been about managing and connecting to content. Open source startup Alfresco is taking the ECM model a step further with the help of Web 2.0 approaches for the Alfresco Community Release 2.1. “The 2.1 release really changes the way we look at the architecture of applications,” John Newton, Alfresco’s […]

It’s official. Microsoft is not in favor of the GPL version 3 and will not distribute software that is issued under that license. The new license was officially released last week and was accompanied by a warning from Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation. The argument: it could be used to help undermine […]

The sixth and final alpha development release of the next generation Mozilla Firefox 3 browser is now out. But don’t trust the release notes to tell you everything that’s new in the Alpha 6 release. “So I just looked at the release notes for our 1.9a6 release, and they leave a lot to be desired […]

At the beginning of the Linux revolution, Linux entered many enterprises through the back door with experienced users just managing it on their own. As Linux has matured, so too have the demands of the enterprise and the demands on IT professionals that manage Linux systems. How does an enterprise ensure that its staff has […]