Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘Open Source Development‘ files: Google builds a lot of its own tools as part of its development efforts. Sometimes we get all ‘get lucky‘ and the tools become open source and available too. That’s what has happened today with the Google Closure tools which are a set of JavaScript optimization tools.  Considering the […]

In the rush toward cloud computing, IBM wants to makes sure that enterprises don’t forget about their software development teams. The company today is introducing a series of developer-focused cloud computing initiatives to help provide process and application lifecycle management to cloud application development. The new IBM (NYSE: IBM) services include Rational Software Delivery Services […]

U.S.-based enterprise IT spending became one of the early casualties in the recession, and according to Cisco CEO John Chambers, it is becoming one of the first indicators to show that a recovery is now in progress. Chambers’ comments came during Cisco’s first-quarter fiscal 2010 earning call late Wednesday. While optimistic that the economy is […]

From the ‘Former Wang Employees’  files: Sometimes is not what you know that’s important, it’s who you know — right? This week, Cisco, EMC and VMware entered into a partnership for delivering integrated virtual data center solutions. Aside from the news itself, one of the most interesting pieces of drama in the whole event was […]

Money can’t buy everything, especially when it comes to freely available open source software from the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). The ASF is now celebrating its 10th anniversary as a non-profit foundation that has grown from its initial project, the Apache HTTP Web Server, to more than 60 projects today. The Apache HTTP Web Server […]

After nearly two months of life, Microsoft’s open source CodePlex Foundation is now gearing up to accept projects, but it still has some work to do. “We believe we’ll move into a more mature state in the spring,” Sam Ramji, interim president of the CodePlex Foundation, told InternetNews.com. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) formally unveiled the CodePlex […]

From the ‘Shocking Updates‘ files: Adobe Shockwave users, it’s time to update. Adobe has issued an updated version of its Shockwave Player to address 5 critical vulnerabilities. The flaws affect  Adobe Shockwave Player 11.5.1.601 and prior versions. The new version is numbered 11.5.2.602. “The vulnerabilities could allow an attacker, who successfully exploits the vulnerabilities, to […]

From the ‘Still Owned by Sun‘ files: If you’re like 80 percent of all web users, chances are that you’re running Java. Have you updated to the latest version yet? Yesterday, Sun released Java 6 Update 17, fixing multiple vulnerabilities. Among the issues fixed by Sun is a command execution vulnerability in the Java Runtime […]

Red Hat has been talking about its new virtualization strategy for much of 2009. Today, the Linux vendor is making good on that talk with the release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers, which includes a standalone hypervisor (RHEF-H) as well as a management platform (RHEV-M). The new virtualization products are intended to help […]

From the ‘Delicious Feature‘ files: Google’s Chrome 4 web browser is now in Beta. Chrome 4 has been in the dev-channel cycle since August and has one key differentiating feature over its predecessors in the Chrome 3 browser series, bookmark syncing. Google has three main releases for Chrome, dev, beta and stable channel. The move […]

Cisco today continued its acquisition spree with yet another purchase designed to augment its core networking business. This time, the target is the set-top box business of China-based DVN (Holdings) Limited. The purchase offer will see Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) paying as much as $44.5 million for unit, with $17.5 million in cash and up to […]

From the ‘Codecs, Codecs, Codecs‘ file: Is Skype going open source? Apparently so. “Yes, there’s an open source version of Linux client being developed. This will be a part of larger offering, but we can’t tell you much more about that right now,” a Skype developer wrote on Skype list. “Having an open source UI […]