Sean Michael Kerner

Networking giant Cisco is feeling the weight of a troubled global economy. Yet despite declining net income and net revenues for the second quarter of its fiscal 2009, Cisco CEO John Chambers remains optimistic that he has the right playbook for the recession. Chambers is also optimistic that his company can emerge from the current […]

There’s fast and then there’s real-time fast. Linux vendor Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) is out today with its newest Real Time Linux platform, MRG 1.1 boasting new performance, messaging and grid computing (cloud) capabilities. The new MRG 1.1 platform marks the debut of Red Hat’s commercially-supported grid technology, which helps users create their own enterprise clouds […]

From the ‘GoogleUpdater has got your back‘ files: Google is out with an incremental update to its stable and beta releases of the Chrome browser to version 1.0.154.48. The key fix is a very interesting cross browser attack vector that previously plagued Firefox and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.According to Google’s release notes: There is also a […]

Adobe’s Flash is pervasive across the Web for video and other types of multimedia content. But Flash is also a technology that can potentially be abused by hackers, a problem that IBM’s Rational unit is hoping to prevent with the new version of its AppScan application vulnerability scanning technology. The new AppScan 7.8 release is […]

From the ‘time to update‘ files: Mozilla is out with its first Firefox update of 2009. Firefox 3.0.6 fixes at least six vulnerabilities, with only one tagged by Mozilla as being critical. The on critical bug is a crash with evidence of memory corruption issue, which is something that I see in nearly every Firefox […]

Open source VoIP vendor Digium is busy working both ends of its business. It’s continuing to lead the open source Asterisk VoIP effort into new territory through integration with calendaring and instant messaging. But at the same time, the company is also rolling out its commercial Switchvox 4.0 VoIP IP PBX , with new unified […]

From the ‘it’s about time!‘ files: I’ve had the good fortune to speak with Zend co-founder and PHP superstar Andi Gutmans several dozen times over the last few years. Though he co-founded Zend, Gutmans has long been its CTO with others taking on the role of CEO. That changes now as Gutmans was named today […]

From the ‘is anyone closed source anymore‘ files: VMware is no stranger to the open source ecosystem having made numerous pieces of software available under open source licenses over the years. Today, VMware is adding another one to the mix with the VMware View Open Client which will be available under the LGPL. The way […]

Convergence is back in a big way with networking vendor Juniper Networks (NASDAQ:JNPR), which just released a new system for service provider’s networks. The new TX Matrix Plus platform offers the promise of major scalability with the ability to interconnect up to 16, T-1600 core routers. That adds up to a system that can deliver […]

From the ‘I wonder if it comes with chocolates‘ files: At long last it looks like the release of Debian 5 (aka Lenny) is very near – in fact it could be less than two weeks away! In a Sunday post to a Debian mailing list, Debian developer Adeodato Simo said that Lenny was now […]

From the ‘Linux is thin’ files: Novell announced this morning that it will be preloaded onto Dell’s OptiPlex FX160 thin client hardware. Thin client computing and Linux makes a lot of sense since Linux can often be configured to have a significantly smaller footprint that other OS’s (like Windows) making a thin client experience faster […]

With over 180,000 open source projects in its repository, SourceForge.net has a lot of files it needs to track and serve. It can become a challenge to manage all those downloads. For the most part, Sourceforge relies on a system of globally distributed mirror sites that help to deliver open source application files and programs […]