Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘Rapid Updates on a Fork‘ files: One of the promises of the open source LibreOffice office suite was that it would fix more bugs, faster than the OpenOffice.org project it was forked from. It looks like that was a promise that LibreOffice intends to keep. LibreOffice 3.3.1 is out this week, barely a […]

Juniper Networks has been working on Project Stratus for the past three years and the fruits of that labor came to light Wednesday. Project Stratus, which will be known commercially as QFabric, is an ambitious new data center fabric for cloud computing designed to reduce network layers and complexity. The company said it invested $100 […]

The market for carrier routers and switches had over 20 percent growth last year, according to a new report from Infonetics Research. The research firm estimated the market for carrier Ethernet switch and IP routers was worth $12.8 billion in 2010 an increase of 20.5 percent over 2009. While Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) continues to hold […]

From the ‘Open Source CMS‘ files: A lot of people likely think of WordPress as an open source blogging platform. With the new WordPress 3.1 release, that’s not a precise description anymore as the platform is now really quite a fully featured Content Management System (CMS). WordPress 3.1 includes new Network administration feature and delves […]

From the ‘Where Do You Want To Go Today?‘ files: The Chrome omnibox is one of the most distinctive features of Google’s open source browser. While Mozilla Firefox has it’s ‘Awesome Bar’ which kinda/sorta is a similar idea, Chrome’s Omnibox gets rid of the search dialogue box that Firefox has and puts everything into the […]

Building on an established partnership, Novell is expanding its Linux support for SAP. The new version of Novell’s SUSE Enterprise Linux Server for SAP Applications, which is rooted in the company’s SLES 11 offering, now includes support for the breadth of SAP’s technology, covering both physical and virtual instances. Additionally, the two companies have agreed […]

In a bid to help customers speed the delivery of networking applications, Avaya has begun to implement the IEEE’s 802.1aq Shortest Path Bridging standard. The standard, just as it sounds, helps networks take the most direct route, and the Avaya implementation extends the firm’s rollout of its Virtual Enterprise Network Architecture “We’re giving our customers […]

When Novell went public with word that it had agreed to sell to Attachmate, some shareholders banded together to protest the transaction, saying the $2.2 billion valuation wasn’t enough. But whatever concerns surfaced upon announcement of the deal have either subsided or were only the voice of a slim minority, as Novell shareholder have voted […]

Are one company’s castoffs another company’s treasure? Open source startup ForgeRock this week is celebrating its first year in business, thanks in part to technology giant Oracle. The core of ForgeRock identity offerings were born at Sun Microsystems, which has since been acquired by Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL). ForgeRock has managed to take a number of […]

From the “Invalid but Fair?‘ files: I’m not a lawyer and I don’t pretend to be one, but the latest round of back and forth in the Oracle/Google battle over Java in Android is really…..interesting (to say the least). In a series of legal filings this week, Google’s attorney’s have both asked the U.S. Patent […]

From the ‘Strength in Numbers‘ files: Google’s open source Chrome browser is revving up — again. Chrome 11 dev-channel is now out as Chrome 10 is now being promoted to Beta. At this early stage of Chrome 11, the most notable new features is, yet another – new version of the V8 JavaScript engine. Chrome […]

This week’s release of the VitalQIP 1200 is the latest iteration of Alcatel-Lucent’s IP management platform dating back over ten years. The company said the VitalQIP 1200 delivers more performance than its predecessors and offers dual power supplies for increased reliability. On the DNS side, the VitalQIP 1200 can deliver up to 100,000 DNS queries […]