Sean Michael Kerner

TORONTO — Asterisk hasn’t been around all that long, but it has become the standard for open source VoIP PBX . In a keynote session at the Asterisk and Open Telephony Conference here, Kevin Fleming, senior software engineer at Digium and co-maintainer of Asterisk, told an overflow capacity crowd of Asterisk lovers what the future […]

Linux has never been a consumer option on mainstream hardware from a name brand manufacturer. Until now. Dell and Canonical today are announcing that Dell will ship PCs with Ubuntu Linux pre-loaded. The move follows an unprecedented outcry from Dell’s users who demanded that Dell support Linux for consumers and specifically Ubuntu Linux. “We’re obviously […]

It’s springtime for Java developers. Interface21, the commercial vendor behind the Spring open source Enterprise Java Application Framework, is rolling out new releases intended to make Java development easier than ever. Spring Framework 2.1 and Spring Web Flow 1.1 are intended to challenge the complexity in Java development by providing a development model that follows […]

Mozilla’s relentless march toward the release of Firefox 3 continues with the release of Gran Paradiso Alpha 4. Gran Paradiso is Mozilla’s code name for the Firefox 3 development effort. For the fourth development milestone, Mozilla developers have included a few new features to improve the browsing experience for users and the development options for […]

Networking equipment vendor Juniper Networks is aiming to give its users greater visibility and control into what exactly is running over their networks. It will come by way of the company’s latest ScreenOS 6 and IDP (Intrusion Detection and Prevention) version 4.1 operating systems for its networking gear. In the modern networked enterprise, most traffic […]

NEW YORK — The Linux on Wall Street conference in New York is an attempt to highlight Linux and open source vendors and solutions, demonstrating and pontificating on how they all can work together. But can they work together? Can Wall St., the metaphorical home of Western capitalism and competitive free-market economics, in fact be […]

The second Linux kernel release of 2007 is now available, further extending the virtualization and real-time capabilities of Linux. Highlighting the Linux 2.6.21 update is the inclusion of the paravirt-ops paravirtualization interface, which enables multiple hypervisors to hook directly into Linux. VMware, XenSource, IBM and Red Hat first launched the effort to provide expansive virtualization […]

Adobe Systems is planning on making parts of its freely available Flex rich Internet application (RIA) development environment framework available under an open source license. By doing so Adobe hopes to improve the attractiveness of Flex to developers, as it competes against AJAX and other RIA technologies. “It’s true we’ve had a free SDK and […]

Real Time Linux will be available to Red Hat  customers sooner than had been originally expected, but unlike many Red Hat innovations, the new Real Time capabilities will not show up first in Red Hat’s Fedora community Linux distribution. In many cases where Red Hat is integrating new technologies to Linux, it will first debut […]

Enterprise software development collaboration vendor Collabnet is acquiring all the assets and intellectual property surrounding VA Software’s SourceForge Enterprise Edition (SFEE) software. The deal does not include the popular SourceForge.net open source code repository, which is not powered by SFEE. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed though Collabnet will be bringing in VA […]

Red Hat is expanding its JBoss middleware efforts with new initiatives that make it easier to acquire and develop with its open source applications technologies. The open source vendor is also acquiring data-management and integration software vendor MetaMatrix for an undisclosed sum. Red Hat is aiming to take a bigger chunk of the multi-billion-dollar middleware […]

NEW YORK -– Although Linux is making inroads into the infrastructure layer of Wall Street, does open source enjoy the same success beyond Linux? The evidence is mixed, according to a panel discussion during the Linux On Wall Street conference here. “Linux has proven that on the operating systems side, there is a comfort level […]