Sean Michael Kerner

Business intelligence (BI) software is all about deriving value from data. It’s a goal that commercial open source BI vendor Pentaho is aiming to expand upon with the Pentaho BI 4 Enterprise Edition release this week. The Pentatho BI 4 release includes new tools like an enhanced visual interface and report designer that are […]

Red Hat is starting off its fiscal 2012 year with a bang. The open source vendor reported its first quarter fiscal 2012 earnings on Wednesday night with double digit revenue gains. Red Hat’s strong financial performance is coming on the back of growth in both its operating system platform, cloud and middleware product offerings. “Fiscal […]

From the ‘Firefox 5 Today, Firefox 7 Tomorrow?‘ files: I don’t like waiting for apps to start on my desktop. I want a smartphone type experience where i am instantly gratified. Mozilla understands users like me and they’re going to deliver what we want. Firefox 7 (no that’s not a typo) has a set of […]

In the Eclipse world, the trains run on time and get longer every year. The Eclipse Indigo release train is now officially available, delivering 62 projects covering 46 million lines of code. According to Eclipse, there were 408 developers and 49 organizations that contributed code and collaborated for the Indigo release. “We’re continuing to refine […]

HP this week is updating is storage solutions targeted at small and midsized businesses (SMBs). The new storage updates to the HP P2000 G3 Modular Smart Array (MSA) serve to expand the total storage capacity as well providing new virtualization capabilities. As part of the update, the P2000 G3 MSA now supports 3 TB SAS […]

Mozilla today released Firefox 5, three months to the day after Firefox 4 was released. The new Firefox 5 release marks the successful debut of Mozilla’s rapid release process, which iterates new releases every three months. Firefox 5 includes new performance, standards and privacy improvements as well as improving the overall stability of the browser […]

Keeping browsers up-to-date isn’t always as easy as it should be. In addition to the core browsers which are routinely updated, browser plug-ins such as Flash, Java and QuickTime also need to be updated regularly. Last year, security vendor Qualys launched a single user service called BrowserCheck to help users identify and remediate out of […]

At a meeting in Singapore today, ICANN voted to approve a new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) program that will dramatically expand the pool of names that become TLDs. Currently there are only 22 TLDs including the popular .com, net and .org. “ICANN has opened the Internet’s naming system to unleash the global human imagination,” […]

The new Apache Traffic Server 3.0.0 release is the first since 2.0 came out in 2010 when the project became a Top Level Apache Project. The Traffic Server has its roots in Yahoo, where it is used to handle the massive traffic volumes that Yahoo must serve. In terms of how the Apache Traffic Server […]

From the ‘Fork that Eats like a Meal‘ files: This week was a great week for fans of LibreOffice.  It was a week that once again proved that LibreOffice is for real, it’s here for the long term and for Linux-users at least, there is no need to consider Apache Openoffice. This week we saw […]

The open source NoSQL Apache CouchDB database is set to get a major performance boost thanks to commercial services vendor Couchbase. Couchbase this week announced multiple performance contributions to CouchDB that will first appear in the Couchbase Single Server 2.0 distribution of CouchDB. Among the enhancements are disk write and indexing performance gains that offer […]