Sean Michael Kerner

Open source CRM vendor SugarCRM is ramping up its application with the upcoming version 5.5 release, officially announced on Thursday. SugarCRM 5.5 is a major release including new Web Services and mobility features that expand the functionality and extensibility of the platform. The new SugarCRM release comes as the open source company deals with a […]

Networking giant Cisco this week announced its Operation Grand Slam set of updates to its Catalyst Switch and Integrated Services Router product lineups. The new releases include new power over Ethernet (PoE), power management and wireless capabilities. Part of the networking refresh also addresses the need for full network capabilities in both fixed and modular […]

From the ‘better late than never‘ files: Fedora Linux 11 was originally scheduled to be out this week (May 26th), but that got bumped to June 2nd and now is being pushed back another week to June 9th. Fedora staffer Jesse Keating noted that there was a late bug discovered in anaconda storage that is […]

From the ‘didn’t they just release version 2?‘ files: Google Chrome is on a rather rapid release schedule. The browser first debuted last year, hit version 2 (stable) last week and is now at version 3. Google Chrome has three versions stable, beta and dev. The big line item improvement in Chrome 3 is support […]

From the ‘well aged hog‘ files: When it comes to open source Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS) one name stands alone — Snort. Yup the hog is still protecting lots of networks and today Sourcefire (Nasdaq:FIRE) —the lead commercial vendor behind Snort) issued a release celebrating Snorts 10th anniversary (technically the anniversary was December but hey…). SNORT […]

From the ‘late comments‘ files: A few days ago I wrote about the group of 18 open source vendors that were protesting a Government of Switzerland no-bid contract. At the time, Microsoft didn’t get back to me immediately but they said they would — and now they have — with a ‘Microsoft spokesperson statement. “The […]

As Internet usage continues to grow, so too does the need for the big core routers that power bandwidth growth. For networking giant Cisco, core routing comes in the form of its Huge Fast Router (HFR), the CRS-1 (Carrier Routing System) that debuted five years ago with 1.2 Tbps of throughput capacity. Rival vendor, Juniper […]

From the ‘not quite able to run everywhere‘ files: I just read a story from my colleague Alex Goldman about the launch of Adobe’s new Acrobat.com Presentations service. The idea sounds pretty cool to me, it extends the Acrobat Connect service (a Web presentation service) to enable users to actually build presentation.  The only problem […]

From the ‘finally selling stuff off‘ files: Nortel Networks, currently under the shadow of creditor protection, is seeking to sell off it’s majority stake in its LG-Nortel joint venture. LG-Nortel is a joint venture launched in 2005 between Nortel and LG Electronics in Korea and apparently it’s reasonably profitable too. Nortel stated that the LG-Nortel […]

From the ‘smaller, faster‘ files: When netbooks first came out from Acer and Asus, they came with a Linux operating system from a (then unknown) small Linux vendor called Linpus. Linux on netbooks is now more common and there are other Linux distribution choices (and Windows too), but Linpus remains and is now gearing up […]

From the ‘robotic koala‘ files: Ubuntu developers are in Spain this week for the Ubuntu Developer Summit ahead of the Karmic Koala release later this year. One of the big new developments discussed is a new capability to run Google Android apps natively on an Ubuntu desktop. Ubuntu developer Michael Frey blogged about his own […]