Sean Michael Kerner

Microsoft wants more open source software to run on Windows. Microsoft also wants its own Open Source Initiative (OSI) approved license. Perhaps they really can get along. On the software side, Microsoft today announced a partnership with open source solution vendor SpikeSource to eventually certify all of SpikeSource’s SpikeIgnited solutions on the Microsoft Windows platform. […]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is all about securing American interests. Since January 2006, helping to secure open source software has been one such interest. Over 18 months and halfway through its three-year sponsored contract from DHS, code scanning vendor Coverity is expanding the effort, with more projects being scanned and more features in […]

The IEEE 802.3 Higher Speed Study Group (HSSG) has decided that the next speed for Ethernet will be both 40GbE and 100GbE. Originally the HHSG had planned on doing just 100GbE, but industry feedback changed the plans somewhat. “The reason for the two rates is because the two areas of applications have different growth rates […]

SugarCRM has changed directions, announcing today that it will move to the GPL version 3 for the upcoming release of Sugar Community Edition 5.0, which is expected in September. According to SugarCRM’s FAQ on the move, SugarCRM believes that the GPLv3, formally released in June, will become the standard for all open source licenses, and […]

One of the pillars of business intelligence capabilities is something called ETL , an acronym standing for extract, transform and load. ETL can also be a pillar for business integration as well. ETL allows applications to take data from outside sources, turn it into something usable and then make it available for loading in a […]

Sometimes you get the flaw fixed right the first time and sometimes you don’t. For Mozilla, apparently they have not properly fixed at least two types of flaws which they previously claimed to have fixed. Last week Mozilla released Firefox 2.0.0.5, which was supposed to have fixed a flaw that Mozilla claimed was caused by […]

Web Services are not synonymous with SOA . At least that’s the opinion of Thomas Erl, a leading service-oriented architecture (SOA) expert and author of several books on SOA. Erl who is also the founder of SOA Systems, has gone to great lengths trying to educate about what SOA is and how to actually model […]

Multiple cores are the norm now for chip-makers, though application developers don’t always develop in ways that take advantage of more than one processor core. How do you bridge the divide? Intel thinks the key is by making a cornerstone development tool for parallelism open source. To that end Intel is open sourcing Intel Threading […]

What is the impact on Linux distribution usage of the Novell patent deal with Microsoft? According to open source enterprise content management (ECM) vendor Alfresco, it’s driving users to Red Hat. Alfresco asked 15,000 people between April and June about the way they deploy Alfresco’s ECM solution. According to the Alfresco survey, Red Hat users […]

John Newton, CTO and chairman of open source enterprise content management (ECM) vendor Alfresco, is certainly no stranger to the industry. Newton was one of the founding engineers at Ingres working on one of the first commercial relational databases. In the ECM space, he’s best known as the co-founder of ECM vendor Documentum, which was […]

It’s a good time to be in the IT security business, especially if you’re into appliances, also known as the Security Appliance Market. According to research firm IDC, the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), Unified Threat Management (UTM) and Secure Content Management (SCM) appliance market all posted double digit revenue gains in the first quarter of […]

Not that long ago, open source systems monitoring was all about Nagios, a leading monitoring tool. The field has widened considerably in recent years and today expands even further with the released of Zenoss Enterprise Edition 2.0. The new Enterprise version of Zenoss isn’t intended to compete against its open source peers but rather Zenoss […]