Sean Michael Kerner

Apple’s new Leopard operating system has been out in the open for a few weeks now, the company other OS is limping under the weight of over 40 security vulnerabilities. Apple has released its 10.4.11 update for its now “older” Tiger Mac OS X. The update is the third point upgrade for the 10.4.x operating […]

Telecom carriers are among the most demanding IT users on the planet, requiring real-time performance and the highest levels of dependability. It’s an area that MontaVista Software sees as being ripe for Linux. Today, the company announced version 5.0 of its MontaVista Carrier-Grade Linux, and claims the release will add even more real-time and scalability […]

Oracle is teaming with electronics reseller CDW to market Oracle’s Linux products in a major deal that could extend the database giant’s Linux reach in North America. “This is an extension of a longstanding relationship we have with CDW,” Judson Althoff, vice president of Oracle’s platform and distribution alliances, told InternetNews.com. “They are one of […]

With their increasing use of part-time and contract workers, enterprises face new difficulties in limiting network access to secure, healthy machines. As a result, networking giant Cisco today is wagering that the time is right to deploy a new type of Network Access Control (NAC) server specifically designed to handle guest users. “NAC Guest Server […]

Five months after being acquired by IBM, Watchfire is out with its latest release of its security scanning product AppScan. With the release, Watchfire will try to prove that it can integrate with IBM’s Rational product line and that it can also still continue to stand on its own. “Application security needs to be part […]

Among the most fundamental and core pieces of software that can exist in a network infrastructure is software that can monitor the network itself. The market for network and IT monitoring tools is extremely competitive, with heavyweights, such as IBM Tivoli and HP OpenView commanding a lot of attention and dollars. In recent years there […]

Microsoft is making what’s old, new again, thanks to a plan announced this week to revert to an earlier way its Internet Explorer browser handles ActiveX controls. In April 2006, the company changed the behavior of how IE dealt with ActiveX controls as part of its legal wrangling with patent firm Eolas Technologies. According to […]

It was just over a year ago that Microsoft partnered with Linux vendor Novell, turning the Linux world on its ears. The companies now claim that they’ve signed 30 new customers to the deal, including Costco Wholesale Corp., Southwest Airlines Co. and the City of Los Angeles. How much impact the deal actually has had […]

Red Hat’s Fedora today debuted a major new release that in many ways offers more than any previous version of the community Linux effort. That’s because Fedora 8, codenamed “Werewolf,” is actually more than just a single release of a single distribution. In addition to a myriad of new features, the release offers at least […]

Linux vendor Red Hat unveiled a trio of developments today as part of a broad initiative that it hopes will make its operating system pervasive across the enterprise landscape. As part of the strategy, Red Hat is making Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) available in an on-demand form, thanks to a deal with Amazon’s Elastic […]

Just because a company is under bankruptcy protection and is trying to sell off its assets doesn’t mean it’s out of business. Embattled Unix vendor SCO is rolling out a maintenance pack update this week for its OpenServer 6 Unix server. The maintenance pack is the third such update to OpenServer 6 since SCO released […]

I should fess up right now: It’s probably my fault that the Writers Guild of America (WGA) is on strike. Sorry about that. Don’t get me wrong: I love TV. I love TV programming. I love my actual TV itself (a 55-inch behemoth). That said, much of the content that I view on my TV […]