Sean Michael Kerner

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has finally revealed plans to release the third discussion draft of the GPL version 3 license tomorrow. GPL, the defining license of the Free Software movement, has not undergone revision since the GPL version 2 license was released in June 1991. The new draft comes eight months after the second […]

AJAX-based online tools  typically offer nearly all the dynamics of desktop applications save for one: offline viewing. When you’re not connected to the Internet, you’re not connected to your data, which is what AJAX helps to streamline. But that’s about to change, thanks in part to an effort from open source collaboration vendor Zimbra. Starting […]

Mozilla developers are keeping up the pace on the development of their next-generation Firefox 3.0 browser with the Alpha 3 release, adding more under-the-hood improvements to security and its offline capabilities. Development began on Firefox 3.0, code-named Gran Paradiso, around October when Firefox 2.0 was released. Gran Paradiso hit its Alpha 2 release in early […]

Reporter’s Notebook: AJAX as an industry term has only existed for two years, though the underlying technologies have been around a lot longer. Make no mistake about it: Google brought the term and approach that is AJAX to the mainstream, and Google is continuing to be the guiding light in AJAX development today. There were […]

Turns out Oracle CEO Larry Ellison does have a few friends and one of them is HP. Earlier this week Ellison claimed that Oracle had displaced Red Hat at search engine giant Yahoo. But neither Yahoo nor Red Hat completely agree with Ellison’s claim. Ellison also said Oracle had signed HP, CDW and Dell as […]

The ERP business is one that has long been dominated by giant enterprise software vendors like SAP and Oracle’s PeopleSoft. Microsoft has entered the fray, too, with its Dynamics applications to further make the ERP marketplace even more competitive. Into that hostile and aggressive environment walks open source ERP vendor Openbravo. The Spain-based vendor is […]

You can’t always take everything you hear in the technology industry at face value. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said on his company’s Q3 2007 conference call today that Oracle has displaced Red Hat at Yahoo. Officials at both Red Hat and Yahoo, however, see it differently. A Yahoo spokesperson told internetnews.com that Yahoo doesn’t discuss […]

Typically when Mozilla updates its Firefox browser, it includes a number of security updates. For Firefox 2.0.0.3 and 1.5.11, that number is one. The update also marks the first time Firefox has benefited from an expanded community effort. The one flaw is of the low impact variety and addresses the manner in which Firefox handles […]

NEW YORK — PHP is one of the most widely used languages on the Web today. Yet despite that fact there is no “P” in AJAX , Zend co-founder Andi Gutmans believes that PHP could be the glue that makes AJAX work better. Gutmans began his session at AJAXWorld here this week by noting that […]

NEW YORK — It’s not every day that you see a Microsoft employee demonstrating Microsoft software running natively on Linux. Yet that’s exactly what happened at AJAXWorld here, as Brad Abrams, group program manager at Microsoft for ASP.NET AJAX (codenamed Atlas) did today. During a morning keynote, Abrams declared that Microsoft is not the cathedral […]

NEW YORK — AJAX is not about any one company or vendors standards. The openness of AJAX was underscored today by the announcement at AJAXWorld that the OpenAJAX Alliance has hit its one-year milestone and that Microsoft is finally joining the party. With Microsoft  on board, the OpenAJAX Alliance, an open industry collaboration of vendors […]

NEW YORK — AJAX , the technology that is driving the Web 2.0, will lead to the demise of the page view as a metric for Web site success, said Edelman public relations professional and celebrated blogger Steve Rubel. Though Rubel admitted at the AJAXWorld conference here that he doesn’t have the magic sauce for […]