Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘SCO is Still Around!?’ files: Two years ago, I wrote that SCO was (mostly) dead. Back in 2010, Novell won the critical ruling against SCO (once famously referred to as the ‘Smoking Crack Organization’ by Linus Torvalds), asserting the Novell and not SCO own the trademarks to Unix. At the time Groklaw declared: […]

From the ‘Platinum Microsoft Licensee’ Files: The Linux Foundation is bringing Linus Torvalds to South Korea. Torvalds will be a key speaker at the inaugural Korea Linux Forum which is set to occur October 11 to 12 in Seoul, South Korea. Linux is certainly no stranger to Asia, though the Linux Foundation seems to have […]

From the ‘Real Time Linux’ files: With all the excitement about the Sunday AM (ET) landing of the NASA Curiosity rover on Mars, I’ve felt that something has been missing. I’ve seen multiple press releases from vendors all highlighting how their tech is helping NASA. One of the releases I got was from Intel’s Wind […]

Now after three years of effort, Deltacloud has finally hit its 1.0 release. A 1.0 release is usually a major milestone signifying that an open source project is mature and ready for consumption. In Deltacloud’s case, the effort has already been deployed and integrated into Red Hat’s commercial CloudForms effort that officially launched in June. […]

From the ‘Open Source Leaders’ files: Robyn Bergeron became the Fedora Project Leader earlier this year. In her tenure so far, the Beefy Miracle (aka Fedora 17) has been released. She’s also had to contend with Secure Boot and is now busy getting everything lined up for Fedora 18. I recently got the chance to […]

There has been some speculation in recent months that the trend toward Software Defined Networking (SDN) could have a negative effect on Cisco. According to Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior, that is simply not the case. Warrior stated that SDN is not about commoditizing network infrastructure itself as some critics have argued. “These architectures actually place […]

The act of phishing is usually considered criminal behavior. In a phishing attack, a hacker aims to trick a user into clicking on a malicious link of some sort in an attempt to infect the user with malware or steal personal information. As it turns out, one of the best ways to help prevent people […]

In an in-depth interview with eSecurity Planet at the Black Hat 2012 conference in Las Vegas last week, Schneier argued that looking at security solely from a technology perspective is to take a too narrow view of the problem. “If you look at broader society, there is a lot of security that happens at a […]

The question of whether or not Oracle must continue to support HP’s Itanium server has been decided in a preliminary court ruling. The court has ruled in HP’s favor, though Oracle disagrees with the ruling. The ruling hinges on a 2010 agreement made with former HP CEO Mark Hurd. Hurd is now President at Oracle. […]

On June 6th of this year, IPv6 was officially launched. Now just over a month later, what’s the status? Who is using IPv6 and where is it headed? Those are a few of the questions that a panel of experts at the IETF 84 event attempted to answer this week. George Michaelson, senior R&D scientist […]

“I think you’re used to us standing up and saying ‘woe is me, woe is me, v6 isn’t happening, but it is actually happening, these are not trivial numbers of people that are now using IPv6 on a routine basis.” George Michaelson, senior R&D scientist at APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) talking about the […]

Rackspace is one of the original co-founders of OpenStack alongside NASA back in 2010. Over the last two years, more than 80 other organizations have joined the effort, including big names like IBM, Dell, Cisco, HP and AT&T. Yet despite the growing vendor participation, Rackspace has not had its own public cloud offering powered by […]