Sean Michael Kerner

The sixth and final alpha development release of the next generation Mozilla Firefox 3 browser is now out. But don’t trust the release notes to tell you everything that’s new in the Alpha 6 release. “So I just looked at the release notes for our 1.9a6 release, and they leave a lot to be desired […]

Red Hat  is on a mission to improve the portal experience with the release today of its JBoss Portal 2.6 open source portal software. The new release is all about making it easier to work with the portal as Red Hat ramps up its development efforts in the fight for portal supremacy. “JBoss 2.6 brings […]

Bell Canada Enterprise (BCE) has been bought out in one of the largest leveraged buyouts ever. The Canadian Telecom giant which has phone, internet, wireless, Satellite TV and media holdings including CTV and The Globe and Mail newspaper is set to be acquired by for US$48.5 billion. BCE will be acquired by a consortium of […]

Since its inception 11 years ago, PHP has been a language for the Web. Now with the release of the Zend Framework 1.0 today, PHP becomes a language for Web applications and Web services enterprise applications. Zend Framework 1.0 is an open source framework for PHP that brings it in closer competition with JavaEE and […]

After nearly 16 years of use, the GPL — the cornerstone license of the Free Software Movement — has officially been revised. GPL version 3 (GPLv3) was released today by the Free Software Foundation (FSF), capping a turbulent 18-month period of debate and discussion. On a webcast from FSF’s headquarters in Boston, FSF founder Richard […]

Mozilla’s Thunderbird e-mail client has made relatively small inroads in the market versus Microsoft’s Outlook e-mail program. The company hopes to flip that switch as Mozilla this week launched Lightning 0.5 and Sunbird 0.5 to provide the complete calendaring system that its been missing. Lightning and Sunbird are essentially two different sides of the same […]

At the beginning of the Linux revolution, Linux entered many enterprises through the back door with experienced users just managing it on their own. As Linux has matured, so too have the demands of the enterprise and the demands on IT professionals that manage Linux systems. How does an enterprise ensure that its staff has […]

High availability clustering technology has long been the domain of expensive, proprietary systems. Sun Microsystems  may well be changing that; the systems vendor will open source its Open HA (High Availability) Cluster code to Sun’s OpenSolaris community in stages over the next 18 months. “The intention is to foster an open community, including the ability […]

As quarters go, the most recent one was a standout for Red Hat, the number one Linux vendor . The company released a new version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), launched a new partner program called Red Hat Exchange (RHX) and made more money. Red Hat said its net income for its first fiscal […]

The official final release of the GPL is still a day away, but it’s possible that over 5,500 projects could be migrating to it in very quickly. Software vendor Palamida, which develops an application that is used to identify licenses and potential licensing issues, estimates that at least 5,509 projects have indicated an intention to […]

Internetnews.com has learned that Digium, the commercial vendor behind the open source Asterisk VoIP PBX effort, has a new but unannounced appliance in the works. An internetnews.com reporter spied the appliance — a 1U rack-mounted unit with the name AA250 — in Digium’s booth at the NXTcomm show in Chicago. Asterisk founder Mark Spencer confirmed […]

I can still remember the day two years ago when one of my fellow editors at internetnews.com told me he heard that the GPL version 2 was going to be revised. I rebuked him, noting that nothing would change with the GPL — so long as the SCO litigation over alleged copyright infringement in the […]