Sean Michael Kerner

From the “but where is RHEL 6?” files: Red Hat is out today with a beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.3. If I’m not mistaken this should be the last major update to RHEL before the release of RHEL 6 which should come sometime in 2009. RHEL 5.3 adds a long list […]

From the “when I was in University I used PINE” files: Lots of activity this week for open source collaboration in the education market. Tomorrow (Wednesday Oct 29th). Collaboration vendor DimDim is expected to announce its Dimdim Virtual Classroom Pack which will let 10 teachers host up to 40 students at a time in their […]

What’s the key to more Linux adoption on mobile devices? Intel wants to know. The chipmaker is searching for answers with its Moblin 2.0 mobile Linux project. The Moblin 2.0 effort includes a new user interface technology that Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) hopes will improve the user’s mobile experience. That starts with a look and feel […]

In today’s tough economy every IT enterprise is trying to do more with less. Network acceleration vendor Riverbed Technology is preaching the same message with a pitch to help enterprises consolidate more services at the branch level. The company’s latest RiOS 5.5 (Riverbed Operating System) release includes an expanded services capability that could end up […]

From the “so rich he can fund the business himself” files: Ubuntu Founder Mark Shuttleworth admitted today his company is not cash flow positive. That’s despite the fact that Chris Kenyon, director of business development at Canonical told me that Canonical has 8 million users and growing revenues.  On a conference call with press and […]

From the “being Thrifty” files: While Facebook isn’t exactly a poster child for open source, it’s not quite an orphan either. Facebook like many Web 2.0 sites was built using open source software – and in using that software Facebook has realized that they needed to develop some of their own. Scribe is one such […]

There is a business behind the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system and according to its lead commercial sponsor Canonical, that business is good. Canonical is set to debut its latest Linux release Ubuntu 8.10 also known as the Intrepid Ibex on October 30th. The new release will include networking, virtualization and user management improvements. The […]

Our weekly Week in Preview podcast is now up! In this week’s podcast, I’ll answer the question – what’s an Ibex? Judy Mottl answers whether it will be trick or treat for our favorite wireless carriers. While Kenneth Corbin answers why these are dark days in Sunnyvale for Yahoo. Head on over and listen in […]

Fears of a full-blown recession are everywhere these days, yet despite the predictions of doom and gloom, networking vendor Juniper Networks sees a silver lining: Things aren’t as bad as before. According Juniper’s (NASDAQ: JNPR) chairman, Scott Kriens, the current market conditions for networking vendors are less disastrous as they were in market bust of […]

Sun co-founder Andreas von Bechtolsheim is giving up his full-time job at the company to focus on a startup networking play. Bechtolsheim is now set to become the chief development officer and chairman of startup Arista Networks. In moving to Arista, Bechtolsheim isn’t joining a company he is unfamiliar with: He helped to found Arista […]

Though the global economy is in a slowdown, there is no slowing the growth in Internet connection speeds. A new report from Infonetics Research on the market for 10 gigabit per second (10G), 40G and 100G networking equipment indicates that revenues are on the rise and faster speeds are coming soon. The company reported that […]

From the “faster fixes” files: Mozilla is updating its Ubiquity semantic mashup tool to version 0.1.2. As far as I can tell the biggest improvement is that this new version will make it easier to get newer versions of Ubiquity – so let’s call this an update for updating. According to the release notes: Built-in […]