Sean Michael Kerner

Sunday is going to be a big day for Canonical, the lead commercial sponsor of the open source Ubuntu Linux distribution. That’s the day that the world will greet Maverick Meerkat, the latest iteration of Ubuntu Linux. Clever Canonical found an abiding significance in the date of Oct. 10, 2010, or 10/10/10, for the release […]

Is video really the next Big Thing? Cisco certainly thinks so. On Wednesday, John Chambers, CEO of the networking heavyweight, declared that “video is the next market transition in our personal lives and in our business lives.” And with that ambitious remark, Cisco introduced the umi, a consumer-oriented product aimed at delivering telepresence technology to […]

For the last couple years, networking players have been working on a standard to help reduce the energy consumption of Ethernet systems. Now, they have the backing of a prominent standards body. The IEEE has ratified the Energy Efficient Ethernet standard, giving official sign-off to a specification that promises to cut power utilization by at […]

From the ‘So That’s What They’re Running’ files: I talk to a lot of networking vendors that tell me that they’re running Linux inside of their devices. The problem that I usually encounter is that the vendors hardly ever tell me where their Linux is sourced from (kernel.org or otherwise). With Alcatel-Lucent, that’s now changing […]

From the ‘Formerly Known As CodePlex‘ files: The Microsoft sponsored Outercurve Foundation has added a new open source project to its roster.NuPack is an open source project management system for .NET. NuPack is all about enabling developers to more easily incorporate third party libraries and in my view makes perfect sense as an open source […]

HP is thinking about words like “convergence” and “integration” with its new networking offering, dubbed Branch Office. The latest addition to HP’s networking portfolio banks on a pairing of application delivery with switching equipment. At its launch, HP’s Branch Office Networking technology will come with support for applications from Avaya, Riverbed, Citrix and Microsoft. Enterprise […]

Looking to fend off competition from the likes of HP, Juniper and others, Cisco is bringing out a raft of new networking products that offer improved performance. Enterprise Networking Planet details Cisco’s (NASDAQ: CSCO) new offerings, which emphasize performance in such items as new routers and switching gear. Security is also part of the new […]

Tuesday is a big day for Cisco’s Borderless Networking division. Included in a broad product rollout are several upgrades to Cisco’s networking security portfolio. Broadly, Cisco is looking to boost the scale and scope of its network security solutions, while also easing the path to deployment and implementation by IT administrators. eSecurity Planet takes a […]

From the ‘What Took So Long?’ files: So the other shoe has dropped and Google has now legally responded to Oracle’s lawsuit on alleged Android patent infringement on Java intellectual property issues. It’s a 27 page legal filing, but let me summarize it succinctly for you. Google is denying Oracle’s claims of patent infringement. Going […]

Fedora 14 is looking to step up its security operations. The popular Linux distribution is including a technology known as OpenSCAP, an open source version of the Security Content Automation Protocol, which provides for a standardized mechanism for maintaining system security. From a standardization perspective, SCAP comes straight from the top, carrying the imprimatur of […]

What does it take to lead a popular open source Linux distribution? Ask Jared Smith, the new project leader at Fedora, and he’ll tell you that the focus needs to be on the community. It’s about more than just “bits and bytes,” Smith explains. In an interview, Smith shares his vision for the Red Hat-sponsored […]

From the ‘Patent Trolling‘ files: Open source is all about transparency, but that doesn’t always apply to all aspects of the open source ecosystem. Red Hat has settled an alleged patent infringement case with IP firm Acacia Research Corporation around U.S. Patent #6,163,776. That particular case was pending in the United States District Court for […]