Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘databases should be open‘ files: IBM may have lost out on buying Sun to Oracle, but it’s taking aim at Oracle in a different way today – database compatibility.  EnterpriseDB which is a vendor best known for its commercial support of the open source PostgreSQL database, is licensing its Oracle database compatibility technology […]

Things are changing fast for the open source database MySQL. On Tuesday at the kick off of the MySQL Conference & Expo, Sun’s open source database division announced new plans to release MySQL updates on a more rapid basis. The first of those releases, MySQL 5.4, is available in preview today, with MySQL claiming it […]

From the ‘Lynx can’t do that‘ files: Google has a new Labs project publicly available today that brings 3D graphics into web browsers. It’s called O3D and its somewhat related to a multi-vendor effort that was announced last month at Game Developers Conference (GDC). According to Google, O3D is an open-source JavaScript API for creating […]

Until today, many Cisco security appliance customers relied on their own local devices to protect against security threats. Now, the networking giant isn’t only looking to take over that role itself, it’s expanding its protection to cloud scale — drawing on the knowledge of hundreds of thousands of devices to protect enterprises. It’s all part […]

From the ‘how open is your country‘ files: Red Hat today published a new study together with Georgia Tech mapping open source activity across 75 countries. Officially called the Open Source Index (OSI), the final score is made of a number of factors including policies, practices in the Government, Industry, and Community. Topping the list […]

Sun is one of the world’s largest open source vendors, making its acquisition by Oracle a development that will have repercussions throughout the open source world. Despite the enormity of the news, however, many open source vendors that spoke with InternetNews.com said they are cautiously optimistic about the impact of Oracle’s Sun acquisition — and […]

From the ‘Jaunty is coming‘ files: Mark Shuttleworth founder of Ubuntu and his CTO Matt Zimmerman held a press conference this AM to pre-announce the launch of Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, which will become available this Thursday April 23rd. Aside from the product details on the upcoming release, Shuttleworth provided insight into what he sees […]

Adobe’s Flash format is pervasive across the Internet today, delivering rich media to users’ desktops. Flash could soon be just as pervasive on your TV, thanks to a new Adobe initiative to bring Flash to television screens around the world. Set-top device manufacturers as well as TV vendors themselves can now include Adobe Flash Lite […]

From the ‘wow I didn’t see that one coming‘ files: After the weeks and weeks of hype surrounding IBM buying Sun, Oracle today announced it was buying Sun — for $7.4 Billion. With Sun in tow, Oracle will now finally have its own operating system with Solaris, instead of just its own Oracle Enterprise Linux […]

Mozilla today is best known as a browser vendor, but one day it could be known as a Web services vendor, too. That’s thanks to a services backend that has at its heart a Mozilla Labs project called Weave. The project is an effort to enable users to synchronize and save data on Mozilla infrastructure. […]