Sean Michael Kerner

As it looks ahead to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, the vendor says it’s dropping support for Intel’s Itanium chip architecture. Red Hat’s keeping quiet on the reason for the switch, but says that developers can expect Itanium support through 2014. Server Watch has the details. Linux vendor Red Hat will not be supporting Intel’s […]

Hot on the heels of being named one the most in-demand skills of 2009, PHP got its newest update, and with it, a slew of fixes for a handful of security holes. Developer.com has the details. The twelfth update to PHP 5.2 is now out with the PHP 5.2.12 release, providing fixes for five security […]

From the ‘Netscape’s Revenge‘ files: After years of playing second fiddle to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser, Mozilla Firefox is now on top – kinda/sorta. According to new data from the StatCounter.com, Firefox 3.5 is now the most popular browser version in the world at 21.9 percent, surpassing IE 7 21.2 percent. The catch (because there […]

After facing down Canadian regulators and Verizon in the U.S., Avaya today completed its purchase of Nortel Networks’ Enterprise business unit. Now that it has the division and paid handsomely for it, what are Avaya’s plans? Enterprise Networking Planet finds out. Nearly six months after making its first public bid for Nortel’s Enterprise assets, Avaya […]

Cisco has now closed the second of three major multibillion-dollar acquisitions that it initiated in October. Today, the networking giant announced that it has wrapped up the acquisition of Starent Networks (NASDAQ: STAR) for $2.9 billion. Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) originally announced its plans to buy Starent on Oct. 13. The smaller company’s shareholders approved the […]

From the ‘It’s Done, When It’s Done‘ files: I’ve been using the Firefox 3.6 browser as my everyday browser since the Beta 2 release. While it’s just about stable enough for me, Mozilla developers continue to make it as bug-free as possible, while adding incremental features and improvements along the way. Late yesterday, Firefox 3.6 […]

Canonical’s colorful CEO Mark Shuttleworth has resigned his CEO post, but as LinuxPlanet reports, the “evolutionary” move doesn’t mean Shuttleworth won’t remain active in the Ubuntu community. Canonical, the lead commercial sponsor behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, is set to undergo an executive management change. Effective March 2010, Canonical and Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth […]

From the ‘European Lifestyle Choices‘ files: After a whole lot of negotiations, Microsoft is now set to offer European users of its Windows operating system with a browser choice. My colleague Stuart Johnston reported for InternetNews.com that there will soon be a “choice screen” on Windows PCs sold within the European Economic Area that lets […]

Novell’s Moonlight is an open source implementation of Silverlight, enabling Linux users to view Silverlight content. However, Novell’s three-year-old patent agreement with Microsoft left the door open to intellectual property challenges by the software giant for users on non-Novell Linux distros. That’s now no longer an issue. Linux Planet has the story. Microsoft and Novell […]

Setting up and configuring a Java app server isn’t child’s play and can take quite a bit of work. Nothing like some management tools to protect you from that headache. Mulesoft, developer of the Tcat Server that runs on Apache Tomcat, has updated its software with that issue in mind. Datamation has the story. For […]

Firefox is getting bumped to a new version number today as Mozilla seeks to close a number of security holes relating to media and memory corruption. eSecurity Planet has the story. Mozilla has released a new update for its open source Firefox Web browser, closing the door on a handful of security vulnerabilities found in […]

From the ‘.NET on Linux‘ files: I’ve been following the Mono project since its 1.0 release back in 2004 and a lot has changed. Today the project released Mono 2.6 providing even more features and compatibility for developers looking for a .NET framework implementation for Linux. The 2.6 release is the first major release from […]