Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘My Browser is More Secure Than Yours‘ files: There has been some back and forth finger pointing in the last few days between Google and Microsoft over Chrome Frame. According to multiple reports, Microsoft has said that the Chrome Frame IE plug-in (which embeds Google Chrome JavaScript and HTML 5) into IE 6,7 […]

From ‘Evolution of the Linux Desktop‘ files: GNOME 2.28 is out today, bringing with it a bunch of improvements to its Linux desktop GUI. It’s got better and more integrated support for Bluetooth devices, improved sound control,  an improved time tracker and overall improved ‘fit and finish.’ The thing that has really caught my eye […]

There are some people who do not believe that the Linux desktop will ever be a major force in the global IT market. Mark Shuttleworth isn’t one of them. Speaking at the LinuxCon conference late Wednesday, the Canonical founder pitched his approach for expanding Linux to provide a better user experience and broadening its appeal. […]

The recession is proving to be an opportune time for Linux vendor Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) as it continues to grow revenues and earnings. According to Red Hat executives, the growth is coming at the expense of rivals and as a result of customer confidence in the abilities of Linux and Red Hat’s JBoss middleware […]

Over the course of the last three years, more than 11,200 defects have been eliminated from over 180 open source projects. The defect reduction comes in part due to the Coverity Scan effort, originally funded by the U.S Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2006. DHS no longer funds the effort, but Coverity has continued […]

From the ‘Commercial Debian Support‘ files: Typically enterprise hardware support for Linux is somewhat limited by the fact that, the major hardware vendors only support two or three major enterprise Linux distributions (Red Hat, SUSE and Ubuntu LTS). Bdale Garbee, open source and Linux chief technologist at  HP (pic left) wants to change that. Speaking […]

Forrester Research analyst Jeffrey Hammond speaks at LinuxCon Open source continues finding favor in both large enterprises and small companies. But while the nature and types of deployments may vary wildly, many have at least one thing in common: The bottom line. Cost savings from Linux and open source has long been a key selling […]

From the ‘Year of the Linux Desktop‘ files: IBM today announced a continuation of a deal with Linux vendor Ubuntu that will see Linux netbook software and solutions sold in Africa. The way I see it, this is just the delivery portion of something IBM has been talking about since at least August of 2008. […]

From the “If You Can’t Beat Them, Make An Add-On‘ files: Google today released a new open source effort that aims to bring advanced web technologies to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser.  The Chrome Frame effort is a plug-in for IE 6,7 and 8 that brings HTML 5 and enhanced JavaScript performance for IE users. That’s […]

From the ‘Strategies for Success‘ files: One persistent topic that crops up at many open source conferences is a discussion of what it takes to be successful. At the LinuxCon conference (Webcast from Portland), Intel’s Dirk Hohndel, chief Linux and open source technologist, gave what I thought was one of the best versions of the […]

The total number of Internet domain names continues increasing, but there are signs that growth could be slowing. According to VeriSign’s second-quarter 2009 Domain Name Industry Brief report, there are now 184 million domain names registered globally, a 9 percent increase over the same quarter of last year. The .com and .net top-level domains (TLDs) […]