Sean Michael Kerner

For years, Xen and VMware have been the virtualization technologies of choice for open source operating systems vendors. With Red Hat’s acquisition of Qumranet yesterday and its competing Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) open source hypervisor the winds of change may be blowing, or not. While Red Hat is now betting at least $107 million that […]

From the “big $$$” files: The continued growth of the Internet and demand for more access and speed are fueling big numbers in IP routers. The latest Infonetics Research report on Service Provider Routers and Switches is reporting that Worldwide service provider core and edge IP router revenue hit $2.6 billion in 2Q08. According to […]

Google’s new Chrome browser is already shaking up the once sedentary browser market. Some might argue that Chrome is an IE-killer, an arrow in Google’s quiver headed straight for Microsoft’s browser. I’m not one of them. Internet Explorer killed Netscape in the first browser war and ever since that victory, Microsoft has been the dominant […]

From the “someone was having fun” files: The first Google Chrome Easter Egg has been discovered. Type in about:internets into the omnibox and you’ll get your own view of the tubes themselves… I still like Firefox 3’s Easter Egg too (type about:robots). On a more serious not, there are a bunch of about: commands in […]

From the ‘we love Xen – sorta‘ files: Red Hat is buying KVM vendor Qumranet for $107 million. It’s a big move but I’m not surprised and neither should anyone else. I’ve been following and using the open source virtualization Xen project for years. Red Hat of course has been supporting Xen for years too. […]

Linux vendor Red Hat is upping the ante in the virtualization market today with the $107 million dollar cash acquisition of privately held virtualization vendor Qumranet. The acquisition brings Qumranet’s SolidICE virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) under the Red Hat banner, giving the Linux vendor a claim to end-to-end platform virtualization — thanks to its existing […]

The basic idea behind all development frameworks is to make it easier for developers to integrate common tasks and functions. Such is the case with the new open source Zend Framework, version 1.6 for PHP developers. Zend Framework 1.6 aims to make it easier for developers to integrate the CAPTCHA feature that lets a site […]

From the “if you click on a bad link bad things happen” files: I just got contacted by a PR firm that wanted to talk to me about the new Google Chrome carpet bombing flaw. Only problem is, the flaw isn’t what I would call a flaw (but that’s not stopping other pubs from reporting […]

From the ‘we’re faster than you‘ files: One of the big claims for Google’s Chrome browser is speed, particularly JavaScript speed. Mozilla however is now putting up its own test numbers comparing Chrome and its V8 JavaScript engine against the new Firefox Tracemonkey engine. Guess who Mozilla says is faster? Brendan Eich, Mozilla CTO and […]

From the “at least the names aren’t as strange as Ubuntu’s” files: The Debian GNU/Linux distribution is nearly the final release of its Debian Lenny distribution. Debian Lenny is the replacement for Etch which came out in April of 2007. Where does Debian gets its names from? It’s all about the Toys – Toy Story […]

I’ve been a Google Chrome user for nearly two hours now and am likely to be a user for many more hours to come. There are a few problems though. First off there is no Linux version of Chrome currently (so it’s either Windows or VMware on LInux…). There is also no obvious ability in […]

Google’s goals for its new Chrome Web browser are simple: Make the Web experience faster and, by extension, make more money for Google. Google’s Chrome browser is now officially available as a beta, offering the promise of increased speed, security and usability. During a conference call and Webcast with the press today from the Googleplex […]