Sean Michael Kerner

Networking giant Cisco Systems is set to report its third-quarter fiscal earnings on Wednesday, and analysts are looking for a healthy profit. And Cisco’s been busy lately, making moves in its enterprise, small business, carrier and collaboration businesses. All that activity has analysts looking for earnings of 39 cents per share on revenue of $10.2 […]

OpenSSO, an identity management platform, took shape as an open source project in 2005 when Sun made the code generally available. Now that Sun has been acquired by Oracle, many veterans of the company have migrated to ForgeRock, which is aiming to extend the platform, which it has rebranded OpenAM, or access management. While ForgeRock […]

From the ‘Go/No Go‘ files: T-7 and counting….no wait make that T-14 for the launch of Fedora 13, codenamed Goddard. Fedora 13 had been scheduled for release next week, and is now being pushed back by a week to Tuesday May 25th. The release was at a go/no go decision point based on the quality […]

What will the next version of Firefox look like? Mozilla has offered a preview of version 4 of the open source browser, set to debut in public beta next month. Mozilla is planning to integrate its Jetpack add-on technology in Firefox 4, along with other improvements aimed at created a more customizable Web experience. Datamation […]

As it moves toward the next version of its desktop and netbook releases, Ubuntu is going on a diet. Canonical, the open source project’s chief sponsor, is developing a scaled-down version of its operating system it’s calling “Ubuntu Light.” The new version, under development in a project dubbed “Unity,” will offer a slimmer menu of […]

From the ‘Linux Geography‘ files: We now know the name for Fedora 14, the next major version of Fedora which should be out by the end of 2010. Fedora contributors have voted and they voted for the name — Laughlin. Laughlin got 610 votes with Laramie coming in second at 507. My personal favorite — […]

Aruba Networks filled an important gap in its Wi-Fi portfolio with the announcement that it will pony up more than $40 million in stock and cash to acquire Milpitas, Calif.-based Azalea. Azalea makes so-called mesh networks that allow data to be wirelessly transferred between fixed outdoor locations such as oil fields and refineries. According to […]

It hasn’t even been that long since 802.11n Wi-Fi became a ratified standard, but now momentum is gathering behind an even faster technology. The new, faster Wi-Fi could rely on 60GHz wavelength and offer speeds up to 7GB/sec. — competing with or surpassing today’s wired connections and potentially enabling a host of new applications and […]

From the ‘Yet Another Distro‘ files: A new Linux distro is officially hitting its 1.0 release today, but you’ll have to forgive me for not being too excited. Peppermint OS is now out, with the aim of being a fast, cloud focused Linux operating system. A quick look under the hood reveals that it’s mostly […]

As an American invention, the Internet has many qualities reflected by its origins. Among them is the fact that domain name addresses have to be in Latin letters. That’s fine for Europe and the Americas, but in the Middle East and Asia, they use decidedly non-standard characters in their languages and never could use them […]

From the ‘Next Gen Add-Ons‘ files: I’ve had an interest in the Mozilla Jetpack effort for about a year now. It’s a project that will eventually represent the next generation of add-on extension technology for Firefox. It’s also a project that has undergone some change recently as the project shifts to an SDK that that […]

Red Hat’s community Linux distribution, Fedora, is approaching its next major release, and with it comes continued development in its use of virtualization, courtesy of KVM. Since jettisoning Xen virtualization, Fedora has focused on tightly integrating and enhancing its KVM-powered virtualization features. Datamation takes a look at what’s to come in the next iteration, Fedora […]