Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘Train Schedule‘ files: Count me among those that have been a bit skeptical about Mozilla’s new rapid release cycle. You can also (potentially) now tell me that I’m wrong too. Part of the Mozilla Firefox 5 rapid release cycle involves a regular and routine merge of code from the Aurora development tree to […]

Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) and SAP (NYSE:SAP) are teaming up to provide an improved, streamlined support model for joint customers.The new support offering builds on the strength of an 11-year partnership between Red Hat and SAP. Among the customer benefits is the fact that there is no need for the SAP customer to open a separate […]

HP (NYSE: HPQ) is continuing to grow its business, despite some weakness in consumer technology spending. HP reported second quarter fiscal 2011 earnings today with Net Revenues of $31.6 billion, up by 3 percent on a year-over-year basis. Net Earnings were reported at $2.3 billion, up by 5 percent over the $2.2 billion reported for […]

Extreme Networks (NASDAQ: EXTR) is now out with its new BlackDiamond X8 chassis. The X8 was first shown last week during the Interop conference running 40 Gigabit Ethernet (40 GbE) traffic. The X8 Chassis can be setup to run up to 192, 40 GbE port or up to 768, 10 GbE ports. In terms of […]

From the ‘open source hardware’ files: Console servers are critical bits of infrastructure, that many of us tend to overlook. Not so for opengear – a company whose sole purpose is to build console servers leveraging open source software for both the OS and the underlying application. I’ve been writing about opengear for the last […]

From the ‘Truth Wants to Be Free’ files: Mono at Novell/Attachmate is Dead. Long Live Xamarin! A few weeks back, Attachmate decided to gut the Mono team from its new Novell purchase. At that time, we didn’t know what was going to happen to the developers or the project. Now we do. Mono founder Miguel […]

The emergence of the cloud is one of the best things to ever happen to WAN optimization vendors. That was the consensus of a panel of vendors including Akamai, Riverbed, Blue Coat and Virtela at the Interop conference lat week. WAN optimization technologies enable enterprises to get more out of their WAN links in terms […]

Open source software is defined by the open source licenses under which applications and code are made available. Have you ever wondered what the most popular open source licenses in use today are? A new study from enterprise open source service provider OpenLogic, released today at the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) reveals that the […]

From the ‘Programmable Networks‘ files:  LAS VEGAS. One of the most interesting things to emerge out of the Interop conference this year was OpenFlow. Sure, I know that OpenFlow was previously a research thing, but at Interop, OpenFlow came alive for me as I saw it demonstrated in the NOC and on the show floor. […]