Sean Michael Kerner

Relational databases have come under lately, as support has been building for a new strain of highly scalable offerings loosely grouped under the NoSQL moniker. One such entrant is MongoDB, which has secured commercial support from 10gen, a firm that has its sights set on Oracle and MySQL. Database Journal takes a look at how […]

From the ‘The Circle of Life‘ files: The Ubuntu 8.10 Linux distribution, code named the Intrepid Ibex will reach its end-of-life on April 30th.  The Intrepid release reaches the end after 18 months of life which began in October of 2008. The end of Intrepid in the same week that next big Ubuntu release – […]

From the ‘Zombie Company‘ files: SCO the company that has been claiming that it owns UNIX copyrights and that Linux infringes on those rights is still alive….barely. The company is no longer listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange and they’re still under bankruptcy protection. One of the only things still keeping SCO afloat is the […]

Developers have lots of choices when it comes to what tools they choose to use to aid their online development efforts. Browsers, multimedia applications like Photoshop and text-editors are all part of the toolbox developers can choose from. Developer.com details the results of a Mozilla-sponsored survey of over 5,000 developers that shows why many favor […]

Facing a spate of security vulnerabilities, Cisco has issued seven patches to shore up its IOS operating system, the engine powering many of its routers and switches. While the vulnerabilities varied in their degree of severity, each had the potential to initiate a Denial-of-Service attack. Enterprise Networking Planet takes a look at Cisco’s security update […]

From the ‘Lucky 7 Milestones‘ files: Novell’s openSUSE community Linux distribution is moving steadily and surely towards its 11.3 release which is scheduled for July 15th. Sure that’s still a long way off and Fedora 13 and Ubuntu’s Lucid Lynx will likely grab more than their fair share of headlines before openSUSE 11.3 is out […]

It might be funny if so many of us weren’t dependent on them. Three major browsers and the most popular smartphone in America were all put to the test at the Pwn2Own hacker conference, a white-hat hacker conference titled after Internet slang that seeks to test security of popular products. Well, another bit of Internet […]

Red Hat proved once again to be one of the few IT vendors capable of toughing it out during one of the worst economic climates in decades — and doing so profitably. What’s its secret? For one thing, the company said new industries are migrating to its flavor of enterprise Linux. During yesterday’s earnings call […]

Canonical made its name with Ubuntu on the desktop and is now making a push into the server. Just ahead of its first major server release in two years, the company has released the results of a study on Linux server usage. Linux Planet has the results. Canonical, the lead commercial sponsor of the Ubuntu […]

Red Hat’s growth has proven largely immune to the economic slowdown that stymied much of the rest of the enterprise IT sector. Can the Linux vendor do it again? Ahead of the company’s fourth-quarter earnings, LinuxPlanet takes a look at Red Hat’s prospects, and in particular, its strength in virtualization and cloud computing initiatives — […]

The Pwn2Own contest has become a closely watched duel between security researchers and software makers. With thousands of dollars on the line, researchers aim to probe software for exploits that could put their users at risk. But this exercise isn’t just about exploiting previously unknown weaknesses in software: It’s about alerting makers of successfully hacked […]

From the ‘Not The Bleeding Edge‘ files: The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team this week put out the FreeBSD 7.3 release which is   about four months after FreeBSD 8 was released. FreeBSD is known as a solid, stable and reliable open source operating system. It should come as no surprise then that many users of FreeBSD […]