Sean Michael Kerner

To further its runtime efforts, The Eclipse Foundation today announced the new Eclipse Runtime (RT) top-level project to consolidate its overall efforts into a cohesive core. Eclipse is perhaps best known for its open source Eclipse IDE project, though Eclipse in recent years has become known for a lot more than just tooling. It has […]

The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has just announced that they’ve settled their dispute (on behalf of their client BusyBox) with Verizon. The Verizion law suit was originally filed in early December of 2007 , and alleged that Verizon had infringed on the GPL by way of its distribution of BusyBox inside of Actiontec equipment […]

It’s no longer just a .NET or Java world when it comes to production-quality development frameworks — PHP is edging its way into developers’ affections. Now, the technology’s backers are planning further efforts to expand on its successes. Zend, PHP’s lead commercial sponsor, plans Monday to release its eponymous Framework 1.5, the first major release […]

Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) is expanding its JBoss acceleration effort with the acquisition of privately held integrator Amentra. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Amentra has more than 140 employees with offices in Richmond, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Charlotte and Tampa and is already a certified JBoss system integrator. “Amentra brings depth in technology and […]

Quick rhetorical question here – but if a malware security vendor doesn’t have the tools/technology/people to protect their own site, can they actually call themselves a secure company? I’m talking about Trend Micro who has admitted according to numerous media sources  to falling victim to a widespread JavaScript attack that ended up compromising its servers(in […]

There are those that have a hard time thinking about BSD as a desktop possibility. It’s just for servers right? PC-BSD continues to prove otherwise with the latest PC-BSD 1.5 release.  This latest release is based on FreeBSD 6.3 (as opposed to the bleeding edge FreeBSD 7 branch) and includes improvements to the PBI  (Push […]

Back in 2004, the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) helped the Linux community to build something called SELinux, which brings mandatory access control (MAC) policies to the Linux kernel. Now four years later, Sun is getting the same technology from the NSA to use with its Solaris operating system. Sun’s OpenSolaris community will work on […]

For Tenable Network Security, developers of the popular Nessus security scanner, moving to a non–open source license has apparently been the right decision. This week Tenable released Nessus 3.2, the second point release of Nessus since moving away from the open source GPL in Nessus 3.0 in December 2005. “We’ve seen more Nessus users, both […]

From the we’re faster than you files:I’ve been writing about the race to 100G for some time and for the most part it has just been about when it will be ready. How does today sound?  Comcast is testing a 100G solution from Nortel Networks this week. According to Nortel and Comcast, the trial will […]

I don’t care much for social networking sites like MySpace.com, but they sure can be a real help for media sometimes. The recent ‘outing’ of (soon to be former) Gov. Spitzer’s high priced call girl by the New York Times is a case in point. Front pages of newspapers around North America this morning have […]

IBM (NYSE:IBM) expanded its identity-management product portfolio today with the acquisition of privately held Encentuate. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, though IBM officials have noted that all of Encentuate’s staff would be coming over to IBM. In addition, IBM will rebrand Encentuate’s Singapore lab into the new IBM Security Software Laboratory in […]

The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has just come out with a scathing analysis of Microsoft’s Open Specification Promise(OSP). In short, the SFLC concludes that the OSP still leaves developers with the potential for patent risk. In a release on the analysis the SFLC noted that: SFLC published the paper in response to questions from […]