Sean Michael Kerner

Dell might not be offering Linux pre-installed on its PCs yet, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get Dell hardware for running a Linux router. It’s all in Vyatta’s latest commercial release of its routing software, which the company said is proof the open source model can work where networking is concerned. Vyatta, an enterprise-grade, […]

Open source isn’t always synonymous with collaborative community development, even when it comes to open source collaboration applications. Open-Xchange is hoping to change that for its open source collaboration suite with the launch of a new community project partially licensed under the GPL . The new collaboration project comes on the heels of Open–Xchange’s recent […]

Network Access Control, which is more commonly referred to by the acronym NAC, is the most hyped term in networking today. It’s also one of the least understood. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a book about NAC? Well now there is and it comes from none other than the vendor that coined the […]

Is a flaw in the Firefox browser fixed or not? A security research claims that it’s not. Mozilla says it is. Last November security researcher Robert Chapin discovered a zero day flaw in Mozilla Firefox’s password manager. The flaw could potentially allow a maliciously crafted page to auto-fill a form with credentials intended for another […]

The firewall is one of the most widely deployed pieces of network security infrastructure. Yet for some reason it hasn’t benefited much from network access control (NAC), one of the most hyped pieces of network security infrastructure. That’s about to change, thanks to Check Point Technologies, one of the pioneers of the firewall. Next week, […]

It may still be cold and wintery in much of the country, but for Google, summer’s underway — the Summer of Code, that is. Three years after the launch of the student-focused open source project that offers cash for some coding projects, Google has streamlined the Summer of Code, and slapped a trademark on it, […]

Oracle is taking its open source commitment to new levels, this time with the open source Eclipse Foundation. The software giant is taking a seat on the foundation’s board, and kick-starting a new java persistence project. The persistence project would be based on the code contribution of Oracle’s TopLink java persistence architecture, which is also […]

Red Hat’s Fedora Core 6 Linux distribution has reached another big milestone, racking up two million installed users barely two months after tallying 1 million installed users. With the new threshold crossing, it is unclear whether Fedora 6 is the No. 1 Linux distribution in use today, but internetnews.com has learned that preliminary discussions are […]

Two Ajax projects and one dynamic language project are announcing new milestone releases today, as the Eclipse Foundation delves deeper into dynamic development. The Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform (RAP) is rolling out the first milestone build of its 1.0 release. RAP is the Ajax equivalent of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP), which has figured […]

For more than a decade, PHP developers have had little choice in where they actually get the latest version of PHP: either PHP.net or as a package from a Linux distribution. Zend, the commercial backer of PHP, is now offering another choice. Zend Core 2.0, the first Zend Core release for the broader PHP community, […]

Red Hat has entered into what its calling a partnership with privately held tools vendor Exadel. The deal calls for three Exadel products to be open sourced and rebranded as Red Hat products and is all part of a bigger plan that will culminate this summer in a new Red Hat Developer Program. Exadel’s RichFaces […]

Open Source business intelligence vendor JasperSoft wasn’t always an open source vendor. JasperSoft made the decision to become open source just over two-and-a-half years ago and since then has become a leading open source business intelligence vendor. The business intelligence vendor recently added the final pillar to its solution suite with the release of JasperETL […]