Sean Michael Kerner

Enterprise interest in cloud computing services is growing as companies with tight IT budgets look for cheaper alternatives to expanding their data center infrastructure, which is not only costly but can also mean having to find more space for servers and other hardware. Best known as an ecommerce provider of all manner of consumer goods […]

Cost might not be the only driver for adopting open source technology, but it can’t hurt. At Virgin America, CIO Ravi Simhambhatla has been managed to implement open source technologies throughout the company’s IT infrastructure. Simhambhatla took that message to LinuxCon, talking up the significant cost savings enterprises can yield through open source systems. CIO […]

Advocates of free and open source software have had a tough time earning legitimacy and peace of mind in a cutthroat and highly litigious industry. But in some areas, such as copyright, strong licenses have held up to court challenges and put open source efforts on solid legal footing. In the patent arena, it’s a […]

Is your enterprise using open source? Chances are the answer is yes. That’s according to new data from industry researcher Forrester, which said that some 80 percent of businesses use at least some open source. In particular, Forrester found major upswings in businesses’ use of Linux and other open source OSes, along with open source […]

From the ‘LWN Rulz‘ files: BOSTON. Linux kernel developer Jon Corbet (pic left) took the stage at LinuxCon today to deliver his Linux kernel report. Corbet said that Linux kernel development is maintaining a fast cadence with about 80 days between Linux releases. On average from the 2.6.31 to the recent 2.6.35 kernel an average […]

Companies who saw last week’s court ruling against Westinghouse over GPL licensing compliance might be finding themselves a bit more eager to get their licensing house in order. But where to begin? That’s where the Linux Foundation is aiming to help. To make complying with licenses like the GPL simpler, the group this week unveiled […]

Linux will remain a priority at Oracle. So says Wim Coekaerts, the company’s top executive for Linux and virtualization engineering, who spoke this week at LinuxCon in Boston about the future of Linux under Oracle, which of course now also owns Sun Solaris, courtesy of its acquisition of Sun Microsystems. But just because Oracle is […]

From the “Let Freedom Reign‘ files: BOSTON. Stormy Peters, executive director, the GNOME Foundation wants people to think about their online software freedoms. In her keynote at LinuxCon, Peters echoed some of the same themes from her talk two weeks ago at OSCON about web data freedom. “We need to be careful that the choices […]

Google’s wildly successful Android is no longer in the mainline Linux kernel, but is that bad for Linux as a whole? It depends who you ask at LinuxCon, where the complex relationship between Android and Linux was a hot topic. Linux Planet takes a look. BOSTON — Make no mistake about it: Open source developers […]

What’s next for Linux? The open source software is constantly being improved, but is it ready for the next set of challenges? At LinuxCon this week, a panel of representatives from Red Hat, Google, Novell and Oracle discussed some of the important issues developers will face as the popular software evolves. Linux Planet has the […]

Open source Linux software has been a great boon to mobile device makers and developers, just look at the growth of Android devices as Exhibit A. But are there too many different mobile implementations of Linux? Mobile technology provider Qualcomm thinks the answer is yes. At the LinuxCon conference, Qualcomm executive Rob Chandhok said that […]

From the ‘Android Who?’ files: BOSTON. MeeGo is different than other mobile operating systems is because it is open. At LinuxCon, Thomas Miller, Head of MeeGo Ecosystem Development at Nokia (pic far left) and Derek Speed, Senior Technologist at Intel Corporation (pic left) gave a very succinct view of why Meego will win in the […]