Sean Michael Kerner

Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) is perhaps best known as the leading enterprise Linux vendor. While Linux is the core of Red Hat’s business, their JBoss middleware business is also a critical component of Red Hat’s overall platform play. As Red Hat gears up for its next era of growth, the most often asked question is: Where […]

The ARM chip architecture is emerging to become an extremely popular one for embedded and mobile devices. It’s also an architecture that has had some issues when it comes to Linux. Speaking at the LinuxCon conference this week, Linux creator Linus Torvalds detailed his frustrations with ARM. Coincidentally this week, Canonical, the lead commercial sponsor […]

2011 has been a big year for SUSE Linux. Novell, which had been the parent of SUSE, was acquired by Attachmate $2.2 billion dollar deal, and SUSE was spun out as a separate business unit. One of the key leaders of SUSE is former Novell executive Allen Clark, who currently serves as the Board Chair […]

Among the hot button items that erupted at LinuxCon 2010 last year was a debate over Android in the Linux kernel. Now at LinuxCon 2011, none other than Linus Torvalds, the founder of Linux, addressed the issue of where Android and Linux stand. “There is still a lot of merging to be done,” Torvalds said. […]

VANCOUVER. Many people in the world consider Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, to be a visionary. Linus Torvalds himself does not. In a session at LinuxCon with kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman, Torvalds detailed his view of what he does and what is wrong and right in the kernel world. “I’m not really a visionary […]

One of the biggest growth areas for Linux comes from the embedded market. Linux is used to power everything from consumer electronics to medical devices, thanks to embedded Linux distros. Intel’s Wind River division is one of the leading embedded Linux distributions and today announced the second update to its Wind River Linux 4 platform, […]

VANCOUVER. Jim Whitehurst took the stage at the LinuxCon conference today to provide a view of where he sees Linux going. Whitehurst stressed that while the technology is important it’s the collaborative user-driven innovation that will make the most impact in the future. Whitehurst told the LinuxCon audience that the general view of Linux coming […]

The issue of open source license compliance is not a difficult one to deal with if you know what to look for. That’s where the new Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) standard comes into play. The SPDX 1.0 release is being made at the Linux Foundation’s LinuxCon event in Vancouver. SPDX is a working group […]

With LinuxCon this past week, we’ve got a special edition of great quotes from the event.   “Where will Linux be in 20 years? I have no idea.” Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Linux vendor Red Hat in a keynote presentation about where Linux heading. (Datamation)   “We need to make sure that the doors we […]

From the ‘Freedom in the Cloud’ files: VANCOUVER – During Linus Torvalds talk at LinuxCon he took the time to call application developers ‘weanies’ and said that they weren’t ‘real men’ like kernel developers. It’s a description that Marten Mickos, the CEO of Eucalyptus (and former CEO of MySQL) does not agree with. During a […]

VANCOUVER. Red Hat CEO, Jim Whitehurst is a man on a mission. His mission is to grow Red Hat to a billion dollars in revenue and beyond. Part of Red Hat’s future growth comes from the emerging area of platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). Those efforts are part of Red Hat’s overall cloud initiatives, an […]

As a Linux vendor, Red Hat obviously wants its customers to run its technologies on Linux. In the case of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) management system, customers to date have had to run the system on Microsoft Windows. That’s now about to change. “The management system has been re-written as a Java app […]