Sean Michael Kerner

The Ethernet switch market continues to grow thanks to the proliferation of products based on 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE). However, the high-speed Ethernet technology still has a lot of ground to pick up for it to become dominant, according to a recent report from Dell’Oro Group. The research firm said annual revenues for 10 GbE […]

For the past 5 years, the open source Eclipse project has been pumping out releases for its myriad projects. The problem is that it’s not easy for a new Eclipse member to figure out what exactly they need to download and install in order to get a particular Eclipse application to work. Enter the Eclipse […]

Mono has long tried to provide an open source alternative implementation of Microsoft’s .Net framework. It has succeeded in some respects, and in others it has been lacking, especially when it come to Visual Basic. That is no longer the case. As of Mono version 1.2.3, the Novell led project now includes new Visual Basic […]

Wind River  extended its quest to be the embedded real time operating system vendor of choice by acquiring RTLinux technology from Finite State Machine Labs, Inc. (FSMLabs) for an undisclosed sum. RTLinux is a proprietary hard real-time embedded Linux operating system that to a certain degree competes against Wind River’s Linux offerings as well as […]

NEW YORK — How much money can a large enterprise save by migrating to open source from proprietary? In Novell’s case, it’s millions of dollars. During an address at the recent Linuxworld OpenSolutions Summit here, Debra Anderson CIO of Novell, detailed how Novell has transitioned to open source from proprietary for its own operations. It’s […]

NEW YORK — Reporter’s Notebook: Open source is more than just Linux. It’s more than just infrastructure and it can save you money. These were some of the messages to float out of the LinuxWorld Open Solutions Summit in New York this week. No need to stop the presses on these revelations, but the case […]

UPDATED: NEW YORK — When the the third draft of the General Public License  comes out, look for language that addresses the recent Microsoft-Novell patent deal. Members of the Free Software Foundation, which oversees the draft change process for the GPL, said a new patent clause is being inserted in the draft that could effectively […]

HP  is continuing to rapidly improve its HP-UX Unix operating system. As part of a new software and hardware roll-out HP is releasing HP-UX 11i version 3. The new Unix version boasts improved storage, performance and virtualization features, raising the stakes against Unix competitors IBM  and Sun  as well as Linux. The version 3 update […]

NEW YORK — Sizing the Linux market ecosystem is no easy task. Downloads of Linux operating systems and applications are not an accurate measure. Analyst firm IDC, however, has a handle on the market and its size, and it’s large. At the Linuxworld Open Solutions Summit, which kicked off today in New York, IDC analysts […]

NEW YORK — Adobe has made great strides in making Flash available on Linux lately, but it still has some work to do. In a well attended session at the LinuxWorld Open Solutions Summit currently underway in New York, Emmy Huang, flash product manager for Linux and James Ward technical evangelist at Adobe, described in […]

This year’s gathering of LinuxWorld, East Coast Edition is very different than its predecessors. For starters, the event is in New York City; last year, it convened in Boston. Moreover, the event isn’t even your standard LinuxWorld and bears the long moniker of LinuxWorld Open Solutions Summit. As the title indicates, this event is all […]

The Linux appliance market for the most part has been more about building appliances than managing them. Today, rPath is taking care of both. The Linux appliance vendor is making announcements on both the building and maintenance of Linux appliance fronts. The rPath Appliance Platform extends the manageability of the Linux appliance for a more […]