Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘mo’zilla, mo-money files: Mozilla reported its fiscal 2015 revenue on December 1, 2016 (yeah it’s a year behind..) that showed continued strength. For its fiscal 2015 year, Mozilla reported revenue of $421.3 million, up from $329.6 million that it reported Mozilla’s revenue’s have grown significantly over the last decade. The first year that […]

Wim Coekaerts first got a job working as a support analysts for Oracle in Belgium in March 1995. He ended up moving up the ranks at Oracle, leading Linux and virtualization efforts, until he left in March 2016. I personally was very surprised when Coekaerts left in March, not just that he left Oracle, but […]

Castle graduated from the Y Combinator cyber accelerator six months ago, bringing its account takeover technology to market. The seed funding will be used to help grow the early stage company’s engineering as well as go-to-market efforts. The idea behind Castle is to make security capabilities easy to deploy and use, explained Johan Brissmyr, CEO […]

Software firm Synopsys announced on November 7 that its acquiring privately-held security firms Cigital and Codiscope. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed, though Synopsys expected the acquisitions to close by December 2016. Cigital provides application security testing and  software security services while Codiscope is a spinoff from Cigital, providing security tools. […]

For 2016, SUSE CEO Nils Brauckmann said that revenue grew year over year by 18 percent, and in North America growth was particularly strong, up by 24 percent. He added that SUSE is now also doing a larger number of big deals with values of million dollars or more. In 2016 the number of large […]

There are a lot of different infrastructure components that help to enable OpenStack developers to build OpenStack. The OpenStack Zuul effort provides pipeline management and works together with nodepool to help manage the OpenStack infrastructure team’s pool of servers spread across disparate cloud providers. Zuul understands the work that needs to be done, queuing workloads […]

The lead up to the official debut of HTML 5 in October 2014 was a very big deal. Now two years later HTML 5.1 was declared an official standard on November 1. With HTML 5 work was ongoing for more than seven years and the standard replaced HTML 4.x which had been in place for […]

BARCELONA – OpenStack loves containers, or so it seems. At the OpenStack Summit here today I learned of yet another new OpenStack container effort. The new effort is called Zun and it’s being led by the Hongbin Lu of Huawei Technologies. The basic promise of Zun is to fill the gap from where the first […]

The race to build bots, that is automated chat technology that responds to user queries, has gone all the way to President Obama’s home, The White House. The White House announced on October 14 that it is now open-sourcing its bot code in a bid to help enable more open collaboration and communication. “To be […]

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) today officially announced that the open-source OpenTracing project has been accepted as a hosted project. CNCF got started in July 2015 as a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project. The inaugural project behind the CNCF is Google’s Kubernetes, which was recently updated to version 1.4. In May 2016, CNCF welcomed its […]

Oracle’s open-source NetBeans IDE could become the next former Sun Microsystems project to land at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF).  NetBeans has long been a rival to the open-source Eclipse IDE and to Oracle’s credit, they have kept the project alive since acquiring it as part of the Sun acquisition in 2010. Oracle has brought […]

Contrary to what you may have read elsewhere, OpenOffice (OpenOffice.org/ OOo) is not dead and it’s not dying either. To be fair, OpenOffice no longer is the default open-source office suite for the mainstream Linux distributions, as LibreOffice has taken that mantle. That said, OpenOffice still has users and more important it still has developers […]