Sean Michael Kerner

Microsoft’s .NET framework on Linux is getting a big boost today with the official release of Novell’s Mono 2.0. The Mono 2.0 release is Novell’s open source implementation of Microsoft’s .NET platform. With the latest version, the gap between the two is getting smaller. Even though Mono 2.0 is compatible with Microsoft’s .NET 2.0, it’s […]

Netbooks are supposed to be the killer category for Linux. According to netbook vendor MSI though, that’s not necessarily the case. In an interview with Laptop magazine an MSI exec claims that the return rate for Linux netbooks is higher than it is for regular (non-Linux) notebook computers. “They start playing around with Linux and […]

From the “still not old enough to drink” files: On October 5th 1991, Linus Torvalds posted his now infamous first announcement of a new operating system called Linux. Seventeen years later, Linux is front and center as a leading operating system, displacing big Iron UNIX and making inroads against Microsoft Windows (which in 1991 wasn’t […]

The open source Python programming language is on the verge a sweeping revamp in the form of version 3.0 of its platform — a release will deviate in many ways from the current, mainline Python 2.x series. So how do you meet the needs of current 2.x Python developers while transitioning to the bleeding edge […]

Linux vendor Red Hat is ramping up its High Performance Computing (HPC) efforts with a new integrated offering that will be competitively positioned against Microsoft’s Windows HPC Server 2008. HPC and Linux are hardly strangers. Linux plays a key role in the majority of all HPC deployments. With the new Red Hat HPC offering, the […]

Though all technology users face the risks of data loss, there are degrees of variability across different industries. The food services industry, for example, faces higher incidents of external attacks while the financial services industry is at greater risk from insider attack. That’s the core finding of a new Verizon Business Data Breach supplementary study […]

From the “shocking but true” files: Hundreds of millions of people have downloaded the open source Firefox web browser. You would think that if someone downloads the browser they would use it – but that’s not always the case. In fact according to Mozilla, 75 percent of users are not active after that initial download. […]

From the “I don’t think so..” files: Over the next 36 months or so talk about IPv6 is likely to hit a feverish pitch as IPv4 addresses are finally exhausted. As such, it makes sense to try and figure who is leading in the race towards IPv6 adoption and who is lagging behind. ICANN staffer […]

No matter what business they’re in, enterprises face the same challenge: providing users with the fastest and most secure network access possible, at a good price. For many, meeting that challenge (at a good price) often includes acceleration appliances inside each office to improve the end user’s experience. Some companies and their customers are taking […]

While there are some problems with IT security in the U.S., Americans in general have better security behavior to prevent data loss than other parts of the world. That’s a general finding in a new report sponsored by Cisco that asked 2,000 globally dispersed professionals about their views on behaviors that could lead to data […]

From the “how about that…” files: A new study out from open source BIRT vendor Actuate indicates that open source adoption in Europe seem to be at a faster pace (percentage wise) than the US. According to the study nearly 62 percent of respondants in France noted that open source is the preferred option or […]

From the “shameless self promotion” files: Every week, my fellow InternetNews.com editors and I get together to do a little podcast called InternetNews.com Week in Preview in which we talk about what we think will be the big stories of the coming week. It’s a fun show to do and one that tends to produce […]