Sean Michael Kerner

Developers around the world have flocked to Ruby on Rails for its simple-to-use framework. Now, a pair of open source efforts are aiming to make it easier to get started with Rails and to get Rails apps properly deployed. On the installation side, using the open source RailsInstaller has been one of the easiest ways […]

Currently there are only 22 TLDs, including the well known .com,.net and .org.  On June 13th, ICANN will for the first time publicly reveal the new names that could one day become Top Level Domains. It’s a process that will yield thousands of new Generic Top Level Domains to the Internet. One of the many […]

“I’ve said in the past that IPv6 is a ‘broccoli’ technology. I still think it is a tech everybody knows it would be good if we ate more of it but nobody wants to eat it without the cheese sauce.” Leslie Daigle CTO of Internet Society talking about World IPv6 Launch Day results (InternetNews)   […]

From the ‘Everyone but Linus Torvalds Loves Github’ files: No Azure is not open source, though there is a growing ecosystem of open source developers that are building projects. New data from Black Duck that was provided to InternetNews sheds some really interesting light on the state of open source cloud development projects. According to […]

In terms of IPv6 traffic, that also is now beginning to grow, though it’s still currently standing at approximately 1 percent of all Internet traffic. According to Google Engineer Erik Kline, there has been a rapid growth of IPv6 at Goggle. For Google, IPv6 traffic has grown by 150 percent in the last year. “At […]

On Wednesday morning, the first reports of an alleged breach into social networking site LinkedIn were published. At risk were over six million passwords that has been posted to a Russian hacking site. LinkedIn did not confirm the breach until later in the day and to date has provided few details. LinkedIn spokesperson Danielle Restivo […]

The Oracle Cloud is now live. The Oracle Cloud is an effort that Ellison’s company has been working on for at least seven years under the guise of its Fusion application suite. At Oracle’s OpenWorld event in 2011, the company first took the wraps off the Oracle Cloud with a preview of the platform. Oracle’s […]

From the ‘Ethical Concerns’ files: Microsoft alleged years ago that Linux and Open Source technologies infringe on over 200 Microsoft patents. It’s that basic allegation that Microsoft used to convince Novell/SUSE to sign a a Patent deal and it’s the same basic underpinning for a dozen deals with Android vendors. So why is Microsoft allowing […]

Red Hat made its CloudForms, Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering generally available this week. CloudForms was originally announced by Red Hat in May of 2011 as an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) play. Bryan Che, Senior Director, Product Management and Marketing in the Cloud Business Unit at Red Hat, explained during a launch event today how CloudForms is a key piece […]

This week, Cloudera updated its core open source CDH 4 (Cloudera Distribution of Hadoop) and Cloudera Enterprise platforms. The new releases provide more security and scalability than prior releases, according to Cloudera. CDH 4 is an open source collection of all the required components that enables a Hadoop Big Data deployment. Omer Trajman, vice president, […]

Yesterday was World IPv6 Launch Day and thousands of sites around the world are turning on IPv6 and leaving it on in an event intended to help accelerate the adoption of IPv6. While the Internet Society has made great progress this year in getting carriers and big websites to adopt IPv6, the same cannot be […]

From the ‘It’s Good For You!’ files: We’ve all known for years that IPv6 is the way to go as IPv4 address space dwindled. Three years ago, Leslie Daigle, CTO of the Internet Society explained that IPv6 was like Brocolli– something we know is good for us, but don’t want to eat. Now as we […]