Sean Michael Kerner

Enterprises are always on the hunt for technology that will improve the workflow of their operations, and Red Hat is hoping to oblige. The open source firm has released the latest version of its JBoss Enterprise Portal — version 5.1 — promising a spate of improvements over the June release of version 5.0. One new […]

From the ‘Welcome To The Grid Program‘ files: The open source OpenBSD operating system may have been infected by a backdoor setup by the FBI. That’s the very public allegation that a former contributor to OpenBSD made in an email to OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt. The alleged backdoor is in the OpenBSD IPsec VPN […]

From the ‘Daemons In The Sky‘ Files: The open source FreeBSD operating system is headed to the Amazon cloud. Not the mainline FreeBSD 8.x release, but rather the next generation FreeBSD 9 release that is currently in development. The movement of FreeBSD to Amazon stems from work done by FreeBSD developers, with some direction and […]

Oracle may have a less than perfect rapport with some members of the open source community, with forks under way in two projects that it acquired through the Sun purchase, but it’s a different story with the filesystem Lustre. According to Whamcloud, a startup focused on developing Lustre, Oracle is supportive of its efforts. Indeed, […]

The world will have to wait a little longer for the .XXX domain. The same goes for a new system of generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs), which promise to open up a trove of new real estate on the Web. That’s because ICANN, the group that oversees Internet naming, has decided to postpone approval of […]

Is Chrome set to be the third alternative to the Windows and Mac operating systems? Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt declared as much at the company’s high profile rollout of the Chrome OS last week, that also featured a test version release of a new generation of notebooks powered by Chrome that run Web-based […]

Enterprises routinely cite security concerns when explaining their reluctance to move to the cloud. As a result, service providers are increasingly looking to prove the reliability of their services with certifications, such as PCI-DSS (data security standard). And Amazon’s EC2 platform has done just that, locking up PCI-DSS 2.0 compliance, providing potential enterprise clients with […]

From the ‘Run Windows on Linux?!’ For those Linux users that need or want to run Windows applications in LInux, here is some good news for you. Wine 1.3.9 is now out, providing new stability and compatibility options. At the top of the list of new features in Wine (WINE is not an emulator) is […]

Open source vendor Red Hat is out with a major update of its JBoss Business Rules Management System (BRMS), its first significant release since May of last year. With the new JBoss BRMS 5.1, Red Hat is previewing an open source Complex Event Processing (CEP) feature, which promises to deliver new business insights through pattern […]

The last time Mozilla issued a security update for its Firefox browser, it patched just one critical flaw. This week, it has issued an update that fixes nine critical flaws, and at least 11 vulnerabilities all told. Mozilla’s security update for Firefox 3.6.13 tackles numerous memory flaws, a buffer overflow security flaw that threatens Windows […]

With its $2.2 billion sale to Attachmate pending, Novell is taking its Cloud Manager technology for handling workloads in the cloud to the next level. The firm released version 1.1 this week, offering new provisioning and self-service capabilities, as well as a host of virtualization enhancements. “In Cloud Manager 1.1, we let you import existing […]

Wave might not have panned out for Google, but that doesn’t mean it’s the end of the line for what was born as an ambitious reimagining of online collaboration. But Novell is trying to keep the technology going, and happily announced this week that the Apache Software Foundation has accepted Wave as an incubator project. […]