Sean Michael Kerner

NEW YORK — Can buzzwords really create a business model? That’s the question that venture capitalist Neil F. Sequeira of General Catalyst Partners asked attendees at the AJAXWorld conference under way here. Sequeria’s said his venture capital firm isn’t looking just to flip business for quick cash but rather to build real businesses and really […]

NEW YORK — If there is one application that propelled the term AJAX  into the mainstream it is Google Maps. Before Google Maps, the Internet world was a flat place without dragable maps and without online mailboxes that looked like their desktop counterparts. Google project manager Bret Taylor said AJAX has become a mainstream development […]

Novell kicked off its annual Brainshare conference today with a slew of announcements, including updates for its core Linux offerings and a new enterprise thin-client solution. The announcements contain a heavy dose of virtualization management, as Red Hat just last week released its new flagship Linux, which is also heavy on virtualization. First up is […]

Sun is ramping up for the final release later this year of its next generation Glassfish Java EE application server. Glassfish V2, currently in beta, won’t just be for developers but will also be suitable for full production deployments and will be commercially supported by Sun. Glassfish is Sun’s community project to develop a Java […]

Ever wanted to take the window open on your desktop and set it on fire? If you happen to be running Linux, you’re in luck. Jaw-dropping 3D desktop effects first came to the Linux desktop by way of the Novell sponsored Compiz effort which got started over a year ago. An open source community fork […]

Google is expanding its Google Summer of Code 2007 initiative by over 30 percent from 2006, taking some 134 projects into the program, compared to the 102 it took in 2006. The news comes one week before the deadline for student applications for Google’s open source program. The Google Summer of Code 2007 is the […]

Though Red Hat  has just released a massive upgrade to its Enterprise Linux, there are plenty of more announcements in the works including greater interoperability and a possible appliance model. In fact there was even so much new stuff to cover, that Red Hat didn’t even tell the world in its launch event everything that […]

If open source by definition means that code is open, then why is Mozilla having some of its code discussions behind closed doors? The reason is simple: to protect users. Last week security researcher Robert Chapin alleged that Mozilla’s security process wasn’t open. According to Chapin, certain key discussions surrounding the resolution of security issues […]

Just because a company loses its CFO, doesn’t necessarily mean that something is wrong. Or does it? Juniper Networks announced in an SEC filing that Robert Dykes, executive vice president and CFO has resigned. Robert Sturgeon, executive vice president, service layer technology group, also resigned. According to the SEC filing the resignations came, “in connection […]

Red Hat  released the latest version of its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL) flagship product today with a flurry of new features, upgrades and improvements. The RHEL 5 release comes as Red Hat faces a multi-front battle in the operating systems space against rivals Microsoft, Novell and Oracle. In this release, Red Hat is […]

For more than a decade, open source developers have been trying to clone Windows. The latest release of ReactOS 0.3.1 gets them closer than ever before, but don’t expect open source Vista just yet. Now, the devs are aiming to be as compatible with Windows 2003 as possible. The purpose of ReactOS was to replicate […]

Setting up shop in SecondLife might be all the rage, but it isn’t necessarily an ideal place to actually share and collaborate on enterprise applications. On the other end of the spectrum is WebEx, which allows for sharing in a linear 2-D space that isn’t as immersive as the SecondLife metaverse. And then there’s Qwak. […]