Sean Michael Kerner

For all of its travails, Sun Microsystems is not letting Java suffer or stagnate. It just issued another update, the 18th for Standard Edition 6, to fixes a number of bugs and optimize performance. Gamelan has all the details. Sun is updating Java for the first time this year providing fixes for over 300 bugs. […]

From the ‘Working For A Living‘ files: Years ago when I first started out with Linux, I remember talking to a recruiter about trying to find a job with Linux skills. The recruiter was clueless and asked me ‘But do you know Solaris?’ Times sure do change, and while there is still a need for […]

When Yahoo acquired Zimbra, it was a big deal. Two years and $350 million later, they’re parting ways. Datamation takes a look at what happened, and how the two grew apart. After spending $350 million and two years of effort, Yahoo officially announced yesterday that it was selling its open source Zimbra e-mail collaboration unit […]

eSecurity Planet has the story on the first quarterly patch update from Oracle — which tackles 24 new vulnerabilities, including a slew of serious security holes. Oracle is now out with its first quarterly critical patch update (CPU) of 2010, fixing 24 flaws spread across Oracle’s product portfolio. Affected products include Oracle’s namesake database server […]

The open source business intelligence provider’s Jaspersoft 3.7 release is giving enterprise customers more options, including multidimensional data analysis and an enterprise-specific edition and a jpivots graphical front-end tool that lets users create pivot tables and multidimensional views. Open source business intelligence vendor Jaspersoft is out today with a new release of its namesake platform, […]

Many firms have benefited greatly from the use of free and open source software, and some forget to return the favor. Not Facebook. The social networking giant is paying back the Apache Foundation after using the open source server software for many years. Developer.com has the details. After spending years using open source Apache Software […]

Does this mark the end of the commercial version of SpringSource’s dm server? The VMware division hails its code donation as a path to greater adoption and usage of its flavor of enterprise Java. Gamelan has the story. The Eclipse RT (runtime) top-level project could soon be getting a new participant, thanks to a code […]

Let the rumors rest in peace. Yahoo and VMware made it official today, announcing a deal that will see the virtualization giant take over the e-mail tech firm. Server Watch has the story on what Yahoo will keep through the deal, and what it means for VMware’s open source plans. Yahoo has reached an agreement […]

From the ‘Rocket Powered Add-ons‘ files: I’ve been an avid user of Mozilla Jetpack – the next generation of add-on technology – since about May of 2009 when the project was first made public. I speculated as recently as November that Jetpack could spell the end for traditional Mozilla Firefox add-ons, it’s not clear yet […]

Just how much power is too much? Researchers at Bell Labs are examining whether the environmental costs for today’s telecom technology are just too high — and how much they can be reduced while retaining current service levels. Datamation has the story. Modern telecommunications networks globally are responsible for the consumption of some 300 million […]

When it comes to managing an enterprise network, should it matter whether a user is wired or wireless? For Aruba Networks (NASDAQ: ARUN), the answer is no. The wireless networking vendor is now integrating the management of both wired and wireless networking as part of its Airwave 7 product release — the latest iteration in […]

From the ‘Ximian‘ files: Nat Friedman, the one-time CTO for open source at Novell is no longer at Novell. His last day was Friday. Friedman came to Novell by way of the acquisition of Ximian – a GNOME company he co-founded with Miguel De Icaza. The first time I met Friedman was back in 2004 […]