Sean Michael Kerner

Sometimes a good idea is a good idea, no matter where it came from. Even if it came from Microsoft, and you happen to be Mozilla. In this case, security was the issue at hand. With the release of Firefox 3.6.9, Mozilla has included the X-FRAME-OPTIONS response header in an effort to guard against clickjacking […]

As the beta release of Firefox 4 approaches, a picture of the new features that will be included in the popular open source browser is beginning to emerge. Mozilla developers are making a particular point about security in Firefox. The next version of the browser will include support for an IETF standard that will enable […]

With Ubuntu 10.10 — codenamed “Maverick Meerkat” — close to making its debut, now seems like a fine time to check in on the distribution’s core development team. Ubuntu, like most popular open source projects, relies on a heavily dispersed set of developers. But at the heart of the effort is always a close group […]

From the ‘Lando Calrissian‘ files: Mozilla’s open source effort to build an online code editor is gearing up for its 1.0 release. As tends to be common for Mozilla, the 1.0 release marker also is when there is often a name change too (think Weave/Sync, Phoenix/Firefox etc.). Mozilla Bespin has been in development at Mozilla […]

For more on cloud computing and the enterprise, visit Internet.com’s new cloud computing site. It’s already a powerhouse when it comes to enterprise virtualization, but VMware has its sights set higher: the cloud. This week at VMworld, the company will be laying out its IT as a Service strategy, central to which will be a […]

Desktop and server operating system updates are almost always a pain in the neck for IT admins — to say nothing of wholesale OS upgrades. While recent trends like virtualization and cloud-based infrastructure can help alleviate the difficulty, for most small businesses, large enterprises and everyone in between, OS updates and upgrades are a manual, […]

There is no doubt that Novell is operating under a climate of anxiety. In March, a hedge fund knocked the enterprise software vendor off its axis with an unsolicited bid to take the company private, throwing the rest of Novell’s moves into considerable uncertainty. Now, Novell has fallen short of its own guidance for the […]

Btrfs founder Chris Mason is hoping that the upstart Linux filesystem will one day find its way into mainstream Linux enterprise distributions as a default. That would mean pushing aside popular filesystems like Ext3 and Ext4 that are currently in widespread use, and Mason admits that more needs to be done to refine Btrfs. But […]

Juniper Networks is ramping up its content-delivery options, taking the wraps off a new set of hardware appliances that aims to clear I/O bottlenecks that slow the transmission of large media files. The roll-out of the new VXA line of Linux-based appliances comes as a complement to the software solution offered by Ankeena, which Juniper […]

From the ‘Great Leadership‘ files: Alexa Raad (pic left), the President and Chief Executive Officer of PIR (Public Interest Registry) which administers the .ORG Top Level Domain (TLD) is leaving her post effective on September 24th. I’ve had the good fortune to interview Raad at multiple points over the last 3.5 years that she has […]

Red Hat is busily expanding its cloud computing offerings en route to what it says is a future where cloud applications are interoperable, portable, and easily managed by enterprise IT. Getting there requires a number of pieces, however — pieces that Red Hat itself aims to provide. It’s all part of Red Hat’s Cloud Foundations […]

A new report from IBM’s X-Force security research unit suggests that even as more security flaws are being reported in software, vendors appear to be fixing fewer of them. The X-Force report found that while vulnerability disclosures are up, the percentage of known security flaws that haven’t been fixed by software vendors has also risen. […]