Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘Fastest to Version 100 Wins‘ files: Chrome version 8 is now available in developer channel for Google’s web browser. That’s right version 8. Chrome 7 just hit beta at the end of September and I’d suspect a stable release of Chrome for all platforms is just around the corner. So what’s new in […]

With its recently acquired AOS 7 network operating system in hand, Alcatel-Lucent is debuting its first enterprise switching platform based on Linux. The OmniSwitch 10K platform, geared for 10 Gigagbit Ethernet switching, offers a host of features to improve bandwidth efficiency and security, and marks the first product rollout in a new vision the company […]

Wireless networking isn’t just about hardware: The underlying operating system can make a big difference, too. That’s what wireless networking vendor Aruba (NASDAQ: ARUN) is betting on with its new ArubaOS 6.0 operating system. ArubaOS is the underlying network operating system that powers Aruba’s wireless access points and controllers, and is built on top of […]

As enterprises look at building out their infrastructure to support new services and growth, will they just buy more of the same, albeit newer, servers? ServerWatch reports on a survey just released by the Linux Foundation of almost 2,000 enterprise users to find out. The survey looked both at plans for the next year as […]

For years, IBM kept its distance from the OpenJDK effort, an open source Java implementation. But that was back when Sun Microsystems was an independent company, and now that it’s been folded into Oracle, things have changed. IBM is now joining forces with Oracle in support of the open source OpenJDK effort, pledging to continue […]

From the “Yes We Can Get Along‘ files: IBM’s embrace of Oracle’s OpenJDK is a good thing for a lot of people in the Java community. Three years ago, I wrote about Red Hat joining the OpenJDK effort (then under the leadership of Sun) at the time Sun was hopeful that IBM would join too, […]

The market for open source networking monitor tools is getting crowded. Tossed in the pot with recent offerings from Hyperic and Zenoss is the latest from GroundWork Open Source, which is out this week with a new version of its Monitor Enterprise suite. With the 6.3 release, GWOS is offering additional features for large-scale networking […]

For developers looking to create social-networking applications, the OpenSocial standard offers a widely accepted framework for ensuring their work is compatible with a wide array of social sites and services. But the standard is only one ingredient of an application’s actual implementation. With Apache Shindig, an OpenSocial implementation that serves as a testbed for new […]

From the ‘LOR Unity‘ files: Netbooks are apparently still a hot target for Linux vendors. The Novell backed openSUSE effort this week launched their latest netbook UI effort called Smeegol (yeaah you know the LOR reference..). Smeegol is an effort to bring MeeGo to openSUSE and at first glance it sure looks…precious.. to me. “Users […]

Server administrators are always looking for ways to improve their app server performance. Mulesoft, the developer of the Tcat Server (based on the open source Tomcat Java app server) says it has addressed just such a need in its latest release. As Developer.com reports, the latest Tcat Server release comes as the Tomcat ecosystem itself […]

Komodo 6, the latest release ActiveState’s IDE, offers developers support for the popular emerging Web application tools HTML 5 and CSS 3. Komodo 6 is built on the Mozilla Framework, using the same sources as the Firefox 3.5 Web browser, helping to improve speed. The new version of the IDE also supports the latest iterations […]

From the ‘What Will They Call It Next?’ files: Mozilla has had a long and somewhat frustrating experience trying to build a mobile web browser. They failed with Minimo, they started again with Fennec in 2008, specifically targeting Maemo. Then Fennec morphed into Firefox Mobile, which hit its 1.0 release earlier this year – again […]