Sean Michael Kerner

Since its first development releases in 2004, Novell’s Mono effort has aimed to bring Microsoft’s .NET to Linux. Now Novell is turning the tables and bringing Linux to .NET developers using Microsoft Visual Studio IDE . Mono Tools for Visual Studio is an add-in module for Microsoft’s popular IDE, enabling developers to build, port and […]

Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) second update to its Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard operating system contains multiple fixes for vulnerabilities that were previously publicly disclosed and fixed on other operating systems. Mac OS X 10.6.2 includes several fixes for SSL security issues that researcher Dan Kaminsky first disclosed at the Black Hat security conference in […]

From the ‘Monty Doesn’t Know Best‘ files: At long last, the European Commission has come out against Oracle’s proposed acquisition of Sun. My colleague Andy Patrizo wrote about this yesterday and he forecast that this would happen last week on our podcast too. The deal breaker is Oracle’s ownership of the open source MySQL database, […]

Microsoft and Novell entered into a landmark Linux to Windows interoperability, patent and sales deal in 2006 and today, three years later, the partnership is still going strong as it begins its next phase. The two partners now say they have more than 400 joint customers and are expanding their efforts around improving Windows to […]

Cisco is expanding its collaboration portfolio today with a series of new products for video, e-mail, voice and instant messaging. The new offerings build on the networking giant’s existing portfolio, but also introduce new technologies developed out of the acquisitions of open source instant-messaging vendor Jabber and Linux-based e-mail firm PostPath in 2008. Among the […]

From the ‘High Stakes‘ files: Cisco is now giving Tandberg shareholders another 9 days, until November 18th to accept (or decline), a $3 billion takeover bid. When Cisco made its bid on Oct 1st for Tandberg, execs on both sides of the table were all smiles (at least it looked that way over TelePresence/webcast). Cisco’s […]

From the ‘Defense in Depth‘ files: Microsoft is rethinking how to do security in an Agile (as in Agile development) world. They have now issued new guidance for the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) process that outlines how Microsoft thinks about and implements secure coding practices. The new document, officially carries the version number 4.1a and […]

From the ‘Happy Birthday‘ files: Five years ago today, I published a story on InternetNews.com about the release of Firefox 1.0. It really doesn’t seem that long ago to me… The Firefox 1.0 release was the culmination of months of effort that ultimately spell the end of the Mozilla Suite (now SeaMonkey) as the main […]

Application security vendor Cenzic today released its security trends report for the first half of 2009 application. In it, Cenzic claims that the Mozilla’s Firefox browser led the field of Web browsers in terms of total vulnerabilities. According to Cenzic, Firefox accounted for 44 percent of all browser vulnerabilities reported in the first half of […]

As a major Linux vendor, one might expect that Red Hat’s new Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) for Servers solution would be able to run on Linux servers. You’d be wrong. Not only is that not the case, but the Management Server piece of RHEV, which provides virtualization management capabilities, requires users to be running […]

From the ‘Auto-Update‘ files: Google is updating the stable version of its Chrome browser to version 3.0.195.32. The new release fixes two security issues and addresses a number of stability issues including a top crash condition and a bug that could have consumed 100 percent of a user’s CPU. On the security side, one of […]

From the ‘Quick Fix‘ files: For the most part, Mozilla issues updates to its open source Firefox browser for both security and stability related issues. That’s not the case with the new 3.5.5 update out today. Firefox 3.5.5 has no listed security fixes and is all about fixing a few key stability bugs. The official […]