Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘Difficult Decisions’ files: Mozilla’s current success is born out of a decision made over a decade ago to split up the Mozilla Browser Suite. The original Mozilla Browser (now continued in SeaMonkey) has both email and browser which was split out into separate projects: Thunderbird and Firefox. While Firefox has achieved stunning success […]

Microsoft’s July Patch Tuesday security event is next week and it is set to deliver at least nine patches. Of those patches three are rated as being critical, while six get the important label. At the top of the critical list is Bulletin 1, which researchers suspect could be an XML vulnerability that is currently […]

With the DNS Changer malware set to potentially shut off Internet access to hundreds of thousands of Internet users on Tuesday July 9th, DNS once again is a hot topic. While DNS can be hosted locally or delivered via an ISP, it can also be provided by a third party service like OpenDNS. While DNS […]

RHEL 6 was officially released in November of 2010, and with Red Hat Enterprise Linux receiving a major update approximately every two years, RHEL 7 is due to be released sometime in 2013. Tim Burke, vice-president of Linux Engineering at Red Hat, noted that key themes for RHEL 7 will include data center operational efficiency, […]

When OpenStack got started back in July of 2010, Red Hat was not really all that interested. Stevens explained that Red Hat was concerned about open governance, a concern that is now being addressed. In April of this year, Red Hat officially joined the growing effort to build the OpenStack Foundation, which will provide an […]

HP now has an effort underway to build the same type of mission-critical capabilities on an x86 system, as is available on the Itanium Superdome class servers running HP-UX. Codenamed Project Odyssey, the effort will eventually lead HP to favor x86 and Linux over Itanium and Unix, according to Scott Farrand, vice president of Industry […]

Are you at risk from DNS Changer? You better find out soon. As of July 9th, if you are infected, you could lose your Internet access. The DNS Changer malware first began infecting PCs around the world at the end of 2011. DNS Changer does what its name implies; the malware changes the DNS settings […]

The Folsom release is set for a late September release, and the OpenStack Foundation could makes its debut in the same timeframe. “We’re on target to launch the foundation,” Mark Collier, Rackspace VP of Business & Corporate Development, told InternetNews. “Now what we’re doing is the blocking and tackling and moving the ball forward so […]

Last week, Red Hat decided to go the buy route, and acquired middleware player Fusesource for an undisclosed sum. In an interview with InternetNews, Red Hat CEO, Jim Whitehurst explained why he decided to acquire Fusesource and how he goes about the buy versus build decision making process. “Every company needs to know what they’re […]

From the ‘Following in Google’s Footsteps’ files: For years, I’ve been saying that a Firefox OS is a good thing (and hey there is no shortage of Linux appliances that are pretty much that). Now at long last, Mozilla has seen the same light and is rebranding the effort once known as Boot to Gecko […]

“When you buy an open source company, if the people aren’t coming and passionate about staying then you spend a lot of money for what? Because you don’t get a lot of intellectual property.” Jim Whitehurst, CEO Red Hat commenting on his company’s recent acquisition of middleware vendor Fusesource (Datamation) “In the ways that that […]

From the ‘Everyone Loves Apple’ files: When I was at Linuxcon in Vancouver last year, i was accosted by a few people for using an iPad (it’s not Linux after all). Apparently I’m in very good company. Red Hat CEO, Jim Whitehurst is an iPad user too.O h and he’s an iPhone user and has […]