Sean Michael Kerner

Drupal wants to put you on notice that setting up a Web site is about to get a lot easier. That’s what it’s claiming with its new Drupal Gardens offering, which looks to demystify the process of building and hosting powerful Web sites. Drupal’s already powering the content management systems in use by Red Hat, […]

From the ‘Staying in Sync‘ files: For the last two years, Mozilla has been working on a project called ‘Weave’ that enables users to sync their browser activities. Now at along last, Weave has hit version 1.0. Weave is a Firefox add-on and unlike the bookmark sync that Chrome 4.0 users now enjoy, it’s not […]

Juniper Networks became the latest tech company to show signs of life in the fourth quarter, posting better-than-expected sales and earnings as demand from service providers such as AT&T picked up steam. Enterprise Networking Planet takes a look at what Juniper’s recent success means for the networking equipment industry as a whole in 2010. For […]

From the ‘Knitting‘ files: The Wikimedia Foundation, the people behind Wikipedia have a new CTO. Danese Cooper, who is well known in open source circles from the time at Sun and at Intel will take the CTO job starting in February. Cooper is also a  Board member at the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and has […]

The head of ICANN, a key Internet governance group, walks the walk when it comes to the organization’s goal of transparency and openness. EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet reports on the group’s use of social media and how it continues to work with government bodies on security and other key issues. ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number), […]

Oracle’s mega-deal to snap up trouble Sun Microsystems has raised a slew of questions. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison took a few minutes to speak to one of those concerns — namely, how will Oracle handle Solaris and Linux? Ellison doesn’t see it as a zero-sum game. Server Watch has the story on the future of […]

From the ‘PHP on Windows‘ files: Zend – one of the lead commercial sponsors behind PHP – and Microsoft have had an ongoing relationship over the last few years to make PHP a first class citizen on Windows Servers. Now Microsoft is help PHP to take the next step, into the cloud. Today Zend Framework […]

The Firefox browser continues to evolve and build on other open source efforts, notably Google’s Chrome browser. Datamation explores the latest development in Firefox’s evolution, one that deals specifically with popular plugins; the utility programs designed to bring new features to the browser. With Firefox 3.6 now out the door, what new features are coming […]

From the ‘I Don’t Like This‘ files: Mozilla makes a good chunk of its revenues from a search deal with Google. So for all of you reading this blog on a Firefox web browser, Mozilla staffers that worked on this, were in part paid (indirectly) from that deal. If you happen to be running Firefox […]

From the ‘Finally‘ files: The long wait for Sun employees and customers is over as Oracle today officially announced that it has finally completed the acquisition of Sun. (My colleagues at InternetNews.com will be covering the full-day event at Oracle, so be sure to check that out). With the acquisition now will come word on […]

While on-demand software has proven itself as secure in the marketplace, some customers remain unconvinced and would much prefer an on-premises version of software. Novell heard the request of SUSE Studio users and provided a separate version to be used inside the corporate firewall. Datamation has the details. To date, Novell has had strong usage […]

Companies that need to use telepresence technology to communicate with their customers, partners and employees on multiple communications platforms will find life a bit easier with Cisco’s new Telepresence Interoperability Protocol (TIP). Enterprise Networking Planet breaks down what every IT administrator wrestling with incompatible real-time communications and collaboration applications needs to know. Ever tried having […]