Sean Michael Kerner

NEW YORK. Gotta love the New York IT crowd. In a session at Interop on Endpoint security a member of the audience accosted the panel made up of experts from McAfee, Sophos and Symantec arguing that none of them actually do endpoint security. “I don’t understand why you are all on this panel,” the audience […]

NEW YORK. Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian took the stage at Interop this morning and boldly told the capacity crowd that open source is for them. The gist of Hovsepian’s talk was about making IT work as one, whether virtual, physical, Linux or Windows. It was a very high level talk sparse on details but he […]

From the “so that’s what virtualization does..” files NEW YORK. Cisco VP Marie Hattar came to Interop this morning preaching the benefits of Virtualization, But first she started with a discussion of what Virtualization actually is and as it turns out it means alot of different things. “Virtualization is a chameleon concept one common denominator […]

From the “we hear you” files: As I reported yesterday, Mozilla has admitted that the Firefox EULA was flawed so it will be taken out for the upcoming Firefox 3.0.2 and 2.0.0.17 releases. **UPDATED** The Firefox 3.0.2 and 2.0.0.17 releases have been pushed back by a week according to Mozilla’s Mike Beltzner, with the EULA […]

From the “when, When, WHEN!?” files: As a person that uses Linux as their primary desktop, I’ve been itching to get Google Chrome on my day-to-day Linux machine for the last two weeks. Apparently there is now an option – though it’s not from Google and it’s the anti-thesis of how Linux apps should be […]

Cisco is no stranger to virtualization, but sometimes its networks have been strangers to virtual machines (VMs). That’s about to change as Cisco is expanding its overall datacenter strategy to be optimized for VMs on physical and virtual switches at regular and accelerated speeds. Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is rolling out a new virtual switch for […]

Adobe is jumping into the PHP world in a bid to further the use of its Flex rich Internet application (RIA) technologies. The graphics and Web development software giant is partnering with Zend, the lead commercial backer behind PHP, to extend Flex support in the Zend Framework for PHP application deployment as well as the […]

Is there a need for a separate EULA (end user license agreement) in the open source Mozilla browser? To date there has been, but that EULA is going to change very soon. In a conversation with InternetNews.com, Mitchell Baker, Chairperson of Mozilla, admitted that Mozilla may not need both the EULA and open source license, […]

From the “it’s all about the network” files: Interop NYC 2008 gets underway this week with vendors big and small showing off and talking up their networking wares. Today is NAC day where it’ll be information overload on network access control and by extension network security. Wednesday is the big keynote day with IBM, Novell, […]

From the “read the licences or go away” files: While Mozilla’s Firefox is an open source technology, the term Firefox itself is a trademarked term (by Mozilla). As such for every version of Mozilla Firefox in binary form that is available to end-users (Windows, Mac, Linux) there is a EULA (end user license agreement) that […]

Networking leaders Cisco and Juniper are both issuing new releases to their product portfolio this week that expand on the promise of speed and service convergence. Cisco is rolling out new mobile and carrier solutions while Juniper is ramping up a new dynamic services product line. The new offerings come as the market for IP […]

From the “privacy is an illusion” files: Firefox 3.1 will be getting the so-called private mode (aka Porn mode). Mozilla competitors, Microsoft IE 8, Apple Safari and even Google Chrome already all have private mode – which is a browser window that will not store history or cookie beyond the session in which the window […]