Sean Michael Kerner

Who has the last say in an acquisition: the U.S. government or the shareholders of a company? It’s something that networking vendor 3Com is going to find out. The company has scheduled a shareholder meeting vote for tomorrow at 8 a.m ET to vote on the proposed $2.2 billion dollar bid by Bain Capital Partners. […]

NEW YORK. Everyone wants Widgets (right?) but what are widgets? And more importantly how can you build them easily? That information is something I was hoping to get from a session at AjaxWorld called, “The Social Aggregator – Widgets Reshape the Social Web”. It was supposed to be delivered by Clearspring founder Hooman Radfar but […]

NEW YORK — Douglas Crockford, the creator of JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) and a senior JavaScript Architect at Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO), is convinced that the Web is broken. During a keynote at the AjaxWorld conference here, Crockford launched a polemic against the Web as it is exists today. “The question is not should we fix the […]

NEW YORK. IBM is in the final developement stages of a new software platform release for delivery of RESTful (DEFINE:REST) services. Currently known as ‘Project Zero’, the effort is officially defined by IBM as, “ an agile development and execution environment which leverages REST and scripting runtimes to speed and simplify development and deployment of dynamic […]

NEW YORK. All right here’s the question everyone wants to know – What’s better – Apple iPhone or Google Android? According to Andrea Gazzaniga, software development manager at mobile open source vendor Funambol the answer is not entirely clear. In a rambling overflow presentation at AjaxWorld’s iPhone Sumitt, Gazzaniga attempted to outline the differences and similiaraties between […]

UPDATED: NEW YORK — There is no shortage of hype around developing for the Apple iPhone. Moving beyond the hype there are also real tools, among them an open source tool from Ajax vendor Aptana. In a standing-room-only session at the iPhone Summit segment of the AjaxWorld conference, Kevin Hakman, director of product marketing at […]

Bruce Perens – the guy that helped coin the term open source and author of the Open Source Definition, is on a mission. He wants back into the Open Source Initiative (OSI) the ‘defining’ body for Open Source that blesses what is and isn’t Open Source. Considering that this is the tenth year of Open […]

NEW YORK. Ajax and RIAs (Rich Internet Applications) are often all about the ‘WOW’, the front end graphical dynamic interface. In a crowded AjaxWorld session, Andi Gutmans CTO of Zend reminded Ajax developers that you also need a backend behind Ajax – a backend that Gutmans hopes will be PHP based. Gutmans spent much of […]

NEW YORK. Nearly a year after first announcing Mashup Hub, IBM is still keen on its online mashup application. In a standing room only session at AjaxWorld in NYC IBM staffer Dan Gisolfi preached the wisdom of IBM’s mashup ways to the Ajax crowd. IBM staffers also talked about the OpenAjax widget specifications which will […]

Apple is out now with its Safari 3.1 web browser – boasting that it is the ‘World’ Fastest Browser’. According to Apple: Safari loads web pages 1.9 times faster than IE 7 and 1.7 times faster than Firefox 2. Safari also runs JavaScript up to six times faster than other browsers In addition to its […]

The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) is claiming victory in yet another infringement lawsuit over the use of the open source GPL license. The case hinges on Verizon’s distribution of a wireless router. Although the original lawsuit, which was filed in December of 2007 , named Verizon as the plaintiff, the settlement involves concessions by […]

Against a backdrop of efforts aimed at remaking itself, Novell executives today seized the opportunity to help put its sizable Linux and system management initiatives into some context for enterprise IT buyers. “Novell is first and foremost a software infrastructure company,” said John Dragoon, the company’s chief marketing officer, during a press conference today at […]