Sean Michael Kerner

Apple users it’s time to update your systems again. The new Mac OS X 10.5.4 updates addresses some 25 vulnerabilities ranging from the Tomcat application server to the WebKit browser technology. As Mac’s use a lot of open source technology there are quite a few updates from open source projects in the 10.5.4 update. Among […]

From the ‘“ree as in freedom, not free beer” files: It’s still a good time to be an open source startup looking for venture capital funding. According to 451 Group analyst Matt Aslett, funding in the second quarter of 2008 hit $115.5 million an increase of nearly 14 percent over the 2Q07 figure of $101.5 […]

As enterprises become even more distributed and even more applications are delivered over an IP address, the need for more speed and application visibility becomes even more paramount. It’s quite a market opportunity for vendors, and Network equipment vendor Blue Coat Systems has a plan to capture a big chunk of it, thanks in part […]

By end of day today all U.S. government agencies are supposed to be IPv6 compliant to meet an OMB mandate that was announced back in 2005. This doesn’t mean that the government will be running IPv6 throughout its infrastructure — but it does imply a degree of IPv6 readiness. That is the government’s networking infrastructure […]

In the fight for the billions at stake in the carrier router marketplace, Cisco and Juniper Networks are going toe-to-toe. This week, that meant both claiming success in deals with Comcast — and going so far as to each announce separate engagements with U.S. cable giant within hours of each other. Juniper said Comcast would […]

It used to be that .com, .net and .org was all we had (and really needed) for Top Level Domains (Tlds). The plan now being floated at ICANN is to open up the TLD system – WIDE OPEN – such that anything could be a a TLD. Under the proposed plan we could see TLDs […]

On Monday June 30th, the U.S. Government mandate for IPv6 readiness comes into effect. Years ago, when I first became aware of the mandate, I thought that this would be the day that IPv6 would finally come to the American mainstream. I was wrong. Despite a government mandate that companies that do business with the […]

From the ‘oooooooh what a surprise snicker ‘ files: Two of the leading mobile Linux mobile standardization efforts are merging with LiPS (Linux Phone Standards) joining LiMO (Linux Mobile). Well maybe merging is the wrong word since that might imply a union of equals. The wording used by LiPS in their press release is; “To […]

Business continues to be good at open source vendor Red Hat despite the economic slowdown in the U.S. Part of the good times at Red Hat are the result of new product introductions that are helping to grow revenues and part comes from the actions of others, in particular Oracle. During Red Hat’s first quarter […]

From the ‘conference calls sometimes are good enough‘ files: Cisco CEO John Chambers held a press conference in SecondLife yesterday – I wasn’t there. I had intended on being there. I tried to be there. But SecondLife isn’t nearly as easy to use as a simple conference call. Worse yet, Cisco had planned on offering […]

Some open source efforts are satisfied with releasing one or two projects a year. That’s not the case with the open source Eclipse Foundation, which today released 23 projects as part of its Ganymede release train. The Eclipse projects that are part of Ganymede include new IDEs for Java and JavaScript, modeling, SOA and runtime […]

Fleeing employees and irate shareholders aren’t the only things that Yahoo is worrying about these days. The embattled search portal is also fighting the good fight against security vulnerabilities. Yahoo has admitted that its Yahoo Mail online e-mail service was at risk from a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. XSS flaws are among the most […]