Sean Michael Kerner

ANALYSIS: Cisco CEO John Chambers strongly believes that “the network is the platform.” It’s a line I first heard him use in a 2006 keynote at Interop, and it’s a mantra Cisco executives have repeated countless times since. On Monday, Cisco is going to take the next step its evolution of realizing that vision. The […]

From the ‘dumb newbie bug’ files: Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 came out yesterday and today Mozilla is hosting Firefox Beta Test Day. As opposed to every other browser vendor I know, Mozilla has a very open and transparent process for testing in which they actively engage the community and encourage broad testing participation. Mozilla is […]

With technologies like Flash and PDF pervasive across the Web, Adobe has established itself as one of the leading forces in shaping Internet content, applications and development. But as open source continues to take root, how is the company responding? While Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) is not a full-fledged open source company today, the company argues […]

From the ‘veni, vidi, vici SPQR‘ files: ROME was not built in a day. I’m talking about the Sun sponsored Java open source ROME project here. ROME is an effort I’ve been tracking for years and is supposed to provide a unified set of tools for parsing, generating and publishing RSS and Atom feeds. Yes […]

From the ‘good things come to those who wait‘ files: At long last, Mozilla today is releasing Firefox 3.1 Beta 3. The Beta 2 release was out out in early December, itself a month overdue. So what’s in the new Beta 3?  Mozilla has improved the Private Browsing Mode (aka Porn Mode) to make it […]

From the ‘are you still using Sendmail?‘ files: At one point or another nearly every human that has ever used email has benefited from the open source Sendmail mail transfer agent(MTA). Sendmail at one point was THE MTA (included with every Linux distro) and like everyone else I used it everyday too. Today Sendmail claims […]

Cisco’s Jesper AndersenSource: Cisco What can networking giant Cisco learn from software application giant Oracle? Apparently quite a bit. With the help of a former Oracle executive, Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is charting a new path it says will bring innovative solutions to the world of network management. Jesper Andersen, former senior vice president of application development […]

From the ‘things you see at Black Hat‘ files: People talk about all kinds of things at a Black Hat event, sometimes even unreleased commercial products. Nearly a month ago, I was in a session at Black Hat DC where HP security researcher Prajakta Jagdale talked about the security risks associated with Flash. Buried in […]

With the PDF format pervasive across the Web, Adobe’s Acrobat and Acrobat Reader apps also remain among the most commonly found software, being the most popular ways to interact with PDFs, a format that Adobe originated. But for the last two months, Acrobat users have been at risk from a vulnerability that potentially could enable […]

From the ‘update now‘ files: Google has updated its Chrome browser dev-channel edition to version 2.0.169.0. The new release comes just days after the 2.0.168.0 release which had over 150 bug fixes. All told what it means to Chrome users is that Chrome today is a lot better than it was a week ago. At […]