Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘everything worthwhile needs commercial support‘ files: InternetNews.com has learned that Lucid Imagination, a new venture to provide commercial support and services for the open source Apache Lucene text search engine is ramping up with an official launch on January 26, 2009. Apache Lucene is a critical Apache project used by many to integrate […]

From the ‘cross platform video is not an option‘ files: As a Linux user, I’m always seeing some kind of FUD out there that Linux users are being short changed out of ..something. In today’s case the FUD was surrounding the Inauguration of Obama, an event that was streamed live via multiple sources including the […]

From the “RLY? I mean RLY??” files: Netscape – now dead and departed in most respects – is a company that played a key role in the open source revolution by opening up Mozilla in 1998. Not all of Netscape was open sourced in 1998. The Directory Server wasn’t open until fairly recently when it […]

Nortel, the networking giant that represented Canadian telecom supremacy for more than a century, is now in

There is an oft-repeated claim by open source vendors that their software can save enterprises money, compared to proprietary software. In the case of open source startup Marketcetera, saving money isn’t enough: It wants to make money for its customers, too. Marketcetera’s customers are traders in the financial markets, and to better meet their needs, […]

What makes Apple’s Mac OSX more secure than Microsoft Windows? According to a pair of security researchers, plenty of factors help Mac security. Among them are technological factors like the kernel that Mac OSX uses. Plus, there advantage of lower market share than Windows, which still makes it a lower-profile target. During a Black Hat […]

From the ‘in the event of a browser crash..” files: Google is updating its Chrome browser to version 2.0.157.2 (that’s the dev-channel release) to fix a pair of crash conditions.  One of them was triggered by the Safe Browsing phishing filter -the other by a cursor… * [r7891] Fixes a crash related to Safe Browsing […]

Engine Yard is aiming to widen Ruby on Rails’ (RoR) capabilities in the cloud, moving beyond its own infrastructure to the wider world of Amazon EC2 and debuting an open platform for developing and managing secure cloud applications. The RoR vendor said its new Solo service would piggyback on Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) EC2 cloud computing […]

From the ‘well where else would you host from?’ files: InternetNews.com has learned that a new survey set for official release on January 20th will report that 40 percent of open source project developers are planning on cloud deployments for their projects. The data comes from a survey of 360 developers conducted in November 2008 […]

Chapter 11 bankruptcy might be just what the networking giant Nortel needs to finally get years of financial struggles behind it. That’s the consensus among user groups and government officials who spoke to InternetNews.com after Nortel Networks filed for bankruptcy protection yesterday. “We think this was the right move for them at the right time […]

From the “huh?” files: Google’s Jaiku microblogging service is about to get a big changeover. It’s being moved to Google Apps, going open source and oh yeah, Google isn’t going to develop it anymore. Google acquired Jaiku in 2007, but Jaiku never really was a challenger to the micro-blogging king – Twitter. “While Google will […]

From the ‘speedy release‘ files: Mozilla developers have pushed out Ubiquity version 0.1.5, the second update for Ubiquity in 2009 (I know!!). The 0.1.4 release was out on Jan 6th while 0.1.3 was out on December 30th. The big deal with 0.1.4/0.1.3 was new skinning capabilities for the semantic web tool. The 0.1.5 release continues that […]