Sean Michael Kerner

From the “speculation of pre-mature termination” files: Lots of chatter today about Oracle planning on killing off openSolaris, once it completes its acquisition of Sun. O RLY?  I don’t think so. Killing openSolaris is at this point the same as killing Solaris itself which would be madness. While Oracle is a huge backer of Linux […]

Speed and security are the watchwords for Juniper Networks’ new Adaptive Threat Management rollout — a product launch aimed at biting into growing demand for technology like network access control (NAC) and WAN acceleration. Juniper (NASDAQ:JNPR) is introducing new NAC, IPS , SSL-VPN and WAN acceleration products as part of the effort. The idea is […]

From the ‘bankruptcy has its challenges‘ files: Nortel Network has been in bankruptcy protection for all of 2009 and is now trying to sell itself off piece by piece. Should it be any surprise that some big names are now dropping Nortel? The London Olympics 2012 organizing committee announced late last week that they were […]

From the ‘future of add-ons‘ files: Mozilla’s Jetpack project was updated over the weekend to version 0.3, improving on a number of key features. Jetpack is Mozilla’s vision for a next generation add-on technology – add-ons are very important to Mozilla with over a billion total installs. From my vantage point the biggest change in […]

One of the key market pillars for Google’s new Chrome OS is fact that it is targeting the netbook market. It’s a market that is growing rapidly with one forecast pegging 2009 growth of nearly 70 percent in 2009. While Linux has been a player in the netbook market since the beginning, NPD Group recently […]

Popular link-sharing and rating site Digg relies on the contributions of its user community to submit stories and choose the most popular submissions. Digg is now reaching out to another community — developers — in an effort to expand its footprint and get more users as it battles for share amid proliferating rivals. Part of […]

From the ‘Firefox 3.6 features‘ files: With Firefox 3.5 now a stable release (with an update coming soon), I’m turning my attention to the next release, Firefox 3.6. One of the key new features that should be part of that release is the Mozilla Labs project called Ubiquity — though in Firefox 3.6 it is […]

From the ‘short life span‘ files: From its initial creation out of what was once the Red Hat Linux distribution, Fedora has always been a fast moving distribution. As part of that fast moving approach, older releases don’t live all that long. The current policy is that releases will live only until one month after […]

The economy may have faltered, but the Internet continues growing by leaps and bounds as people keep moving online in droves — and at faster speeds. Content delivery network vendor Akamai (NASDAQ:AKAM) today released its Q1 2009 State of the Internet report, showing that on both a year-over-year and quarterly basis, the Internet is growing […]

From the ‘browser update‘ files: Apple’s Safari 4 is being patched for a pair of security issues that affect both Mac and Windows versions. Both of the issues involve patches to WebKit. One of the patched issues is a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) flaw. According to Apple’s advisory on the flaw: “An issue in WebKit’s […]

From the ‘isn’t this now an OS?‘ files: Amidst all the excitement yesterday of the Google Chrome OS announcement, Google slipped out a new update to it Chrome browser. Let’s not forget, that Chrome as a real product, right now is just a browser – and one that isn’t’ yet even stable on Linux. Google […]

One of the most talked about aspects of the emerging HTML 5 specification is the new video tag. Several browsers including Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Mozilla Firefox support HTML 5 video already, though to date Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) does not. The HTML 5 video tag removes the need for a browser to embed […]