Sean Michael Kerner

The open source Drupal content management system is going commercial thanks to a new company, called Acquia, led by Dries Buytaert, the founder of the Drupal project. The new effort aims to bring a commercially supported version of Drupal to business users and could shake up the entire content management marketplace. Jay Batson, who was […]

The need for speed in operating systems is never-ending. In the newly released FreeBSD 7.0, speed is a key improvement with gains of up to 1,500 percent at high load utilization over its predecessors in the FreeBSD 6.x branch. While performance improvements are a key aspect of FreeBSD, it’s not necessarily the most important new […]

SCO did not have a particularly great year in 2007. They lost in a major summary judgment decision. They lost cash. Oh and they filed for bankruptcy. Amidst all that turmoil, SCO CEO Darl McBride still managed to pull in a very decent amount of money from his employer. According to a SEC Schedule 14A […]

So far, so good for Novell. For its first-quarter 2008 results, Novell reported growing income and revenues with a strong year-over-year showing from its Linux platform business. With Microsoft’s Windows Server 2008 set to enter the market, Novell’s CEO is optimistic that the company can continue to grow its business even further. Novell reported first-quarter […]

As my colleague David Needle reported over on the main InternetNews.com site today, Google has now launched Google Sites. Google Sites was built with Jotspot technology that Google acquired with the Jotspot acquisition in October 2006. Google Sites is interesting news. The only problem is – What about existing Jotspot users? Today, nearly a year […]

Looks like even big budget operations like NASA use free and open source software for their operations. In a really entertaining blog post Red Hat staffer Jack Aboutboul provides alot of really neat detail about a recent trip to the Kennedy Space Center. Aboutboul’s mission? Well he wasn’t going there to see if he was […]

While a number of players in the networking space had a great year in 2007, telecom vendor Nortel was not one of them. The company reported its fourth-quarter and 2007 results yesterday, and they weren’t pretty — with both financial and personnel losses. Nortel reported a net loss for 2007 that totaled $957 million ($1.98 […]

Paul Frields is new to Red Hat, but he’s not new to the Fedora Linux community. Frields became the Fedora project leader and a Red Hat employee at the beginning of February. Previously Frields was a U.S. government employee and a contributor to the Fedora community for more than four years. Frields takes over at […]

I’m usually a little pessimistic when it comes to security researcher claims about security vulnerabilities in big mainstream sites and services. That said, sometimes they do have a point. Case in point is a report from security vendor Websense. In a blog post they alleged that “Google’s popular web mail service Gmail is being targeted […]

According to Infonetics Research, 2007 was a banner year for networking. Service provider router and switch sales hit an all time high of $11.2 billion in 2007 which is an increase of 16 percent over the 2006 sales figures. 2007 was also a big year for Juniper Networks, pulling ahead of Alcatel-Lucent, to take the […]

WAN acceleration vendor Riverbed is aiming to accelerate its acceleration business with the release of its Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS) version 5.0. RiOS is the core system that power’s Riverbed’s acceleration hardware. The latest release improves acceleration for Oracle 11 databases, SSL encryption as well as Microsoft Exchange 2007. While Riverbed claims it has some […]

Sun’s $1 billion bid to acquire privately held open source database developer MySQL is now a done deal with the official closing of the acquisition. Sun first announced the deal on Jan. 16. “I’m pleased we were able to complete the transaction in record time which reflects the excitement and sense of urgency both groups […]