Sean Michael Kerner

NEW YORK — With the trillions of dollars in financial transactions that take place on Wall Street each year, there is little to no tolerance for lost trades. So how do you minimize the risk? The answer, according to Red Hat, could well be a real-time Linux solution. Tim Burke, director of emerging technologies at […]

All Linux x86 applications will now run on IBM’s Power processor-based System p servers. The new capability dramatically expands the application availability for IBM’s Power by enabling x86 Linux apps to run without modification through a new technology IBM is calling System p Application Virtual Environment (System p AVE). “We have a lot of Linux […]

The open source OpenOffice.org (OOo) office suite is about to get an injection of business intelligence thanks to a cooperative effort between Sun Microsystems and open source BI vendor Pentaho. The Pentaho reporting engine is set to be included with the upcoming OOo 2.3 release and will provide users with easy access to advanced business-intelligence […]

US-CERT has issued a Technical Cyber Security Alert on its National Cyber Alert system for the latest round of Oracle security fixes. Oracle has patched 36 security bugs across various products. This is one of the lowest bug counts the company has reported in its quarterly Critical Patch Update (CPU) cycle, the 10th since the […]

Ubuntu 7.04, codenamed Feisty Fawn, is set for its official release today. Along with advanced virtualization features, the release provides access to some of Sun Microsystems’ Java platform technologies. Sun and Canonical, Ubuntu’s commercial sponsor, consider the Java platform technology inclusions as an important milestone in a larger effort of collaboration. Sun’s Netbeans IDE, Glassfish […]

Reporter’s Notebook: When I think about technology companies that are major backers of the open source movement, I tend to think about Google and IBM . The two companies publicly support open source efforts and both have built products that take advantage of open source software. Yet Google and IBM tend to prefer open source […]

Feed syndication, such as RSS  or Atom , has become the lingua franca for content distribution across the Web. Yet despite content syndication’s obvious popularity, it has been difficult for mashup developers to easily integrate feeds. It’s an issue that Google  is aiming to help solve with the release today of its new Google AJAX […]

What is the key to open source solution interoperability? That’s the question that the recently formed Open Solutions Alliance (OSA) has to answer. The group is publishing an Interoperability Roadmap that it hopes will help reduce the interoperability friction across open source software solutions. The OSA isn’t likely to be publishing its own standards but […]

Application security vendor Watchfire is opening up its AppScan product to help extend its vulnerability scanning capabilities. The new AppScan 7.5 release is not open source itself, though Watchfire is including an extension framework that it’s hoping will leverage the power of open source community and collaboration. “We’re taking a bit of a different departure […]

If Mozilla, Opera and Apple’s Safari browser have their way, the HTML specification  could be getting its first major point update in a decade. The three vendors have banded together in a proposal to the W3C for the HTML 5 specification, which includes Web Apps 1.0 and Web Forms 2.0 specifications and that it’s also […]

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5) has been cloned. And barely a month after its release. The release of the free, community-based CentOS 5 Enterprise Linux so soon after the RHEL 5 release is hardly a surprise; the same thing happened with RHEL 4 two years ago. Nor does Red Hat consider CentOS a […]

The network access control (NAC) marketplace is crowded and highly competitive. Security vendor ConSentry Networks is among those trying to rise above the crowd and the NAC noise. The company recently boasted that it doubled its customer base in the last six months. It has also inked an OEM deal with networking giant Alcatel-Lucent to […]