Sean Michael Kerner

It’s one thing to have a lot of data to mine in a data warehouse . It’s quite another to actually understand how it’s being used. That’s where IBM’s new DB2 Warehouse Performance Management Suite comes in. The new release works with IBM’s recently released DB2 Warehouse 9.5 and provides enhanced tools for understanding usage. […]

For some industries, “fast” isn’t fast enough. The promise of a real-time operating system (RTOS) is predicable response time, every time. It’s a promise that Novell is aiming to deliver with its SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 10. Novell’s latest release comes at a juncture when real-time elements are rapidly being included in the mainline […]

For Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software to be accepted by IT, it needs to be very stable and reliable — after all, in a very literal sense, ERP software runs businesses. After eight years of development and over a million downloads, the open source Compiere ERP has proven that it fits the bill for many. […]

For years, the SANS Institute and others in the security industry have been warning about a rise in zero-day attacks. For 2007, the message is actually a little bit different, with SANS reporting that zero-day attacks are actually on the decline. In its 2007 Top 20 Vulnerabilities listing, SANS noted that “several zero day attacks […]

If you’re a Firefox user, don’t be surprised to get an update notice when you open your browser this morning. Yet again, Mozilla developers have pushed out an update for Firefox that aims to fix nagging security issues. Firefox 2.0.0.10 takes a kick at dealing with a particularly nasty Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) flaw that had […]

The GPL is the most widely used open source license on Earth, yet it has never been tested in a U.S. courtroom. That’s not to say that alleged GPL license violations aren’t already hitting the country’s judicial system. In fact, the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), a pro bono legal firm assisting open source projects, […]

What does it take to have seamless Microsoft Windows file sharing and transfer capabilities on a *nix system? According to Sun Microsystems, it takes more than just Samba . The company aims to follow a different approach to Windows file interoperability with its new OpenSolaris CIFS Server and client applications. Though developed by Sun, the […]

The Nintendo Wii. If you don’t’ have one yet, it’s likely on your Black Friday/Cyber Monday Christmas shopping list. The Wii has been flying off store shelves since it debuted a year ago, challenging conventional notions of technological innovation. Not only is Nintendo’s Wii a consumer-electronics success story, it may well also serve as a […]

Networking giant Cisco continues to lead the booming global router and switch market by a wide margin, although rivals Juniper and Nortel are making inroads, according to a new study. In its latest report, Synergy Research Group found that third-quarter 2007 revenues for routers totaled just over $3.3 billion — a 21 percent gain over […]

After a grueling Alpha development period that included no fewer than nine milestone releases, the first beta of Firefox 3 is now available for testing. According to Mozilla developers, the Firefox 3 Beta 1 milestone fixes over 11,000 bugs and has almost 2 million lines of code changes in comparison with the current Firefox 2.x […]

Maybe it’s too much of a good thing, or just not enough knowledge. A new survey by DNS services vendor Infoblox has found that the vast majority of DNS servers today are using open source BIND DNS software. Infoblox also found that a major portion of those servers are running with BIND misconfigured in such […]

Apple’s OS X Leopard, the company’s latest operating system, has received the first update of its young life. But it also hit a milestone, having been blessed as a Unix operating system. The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium that overseas usage of the Unix name and compliance against Unix specifications, announced that Leopard […]