Sean Michael Kerner

Google’s AJAX Web tool is going open source nine months after it first hit developers’ plates. The Google AJAX Web toolkit (GWT), beginning with the release candidate for version 1.3, will now entirely be licensed under the open source Apache 2.0 license. Google is also opening up the development of GWT for wider input and […]

Running an older version of Red Hat’s Fedora Core Linux? Bad news: You’re no longer being supported. The Fedora Legacy Project is in “transition” and is closing its doors. Effective this week the project is no longer supporting Fedora Core 4 and earlier distributions. “The current model for supporting maintenance distributions is being re-examined,” the […]

Sun’s Solaris 10 Unix operating system got its third major update, and it includes the long-anticipated Trusted Extensions, which replaces the legacy Trusted Solaris operating system. Trusted Solaris Extensions have been in development at Sun for over a year as a new approach to creating a Trusted Solaris OS. In September of 2005, Mark Thacker, […]

It’s a Red Hat day in New York. Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik will ring the bell to open the NYSE while a big red hat sits out front. Welcome to the NYSE. The NYSE will be going all out to market the arrival of Red Hat on the big board. The exchange will adorn […]

Finding bugs in your Java source code is now easier than ever thanks to the Java Open Review Project (JOR), a joint effort by the FindBugs open source project and security vendor Fortify. So far the JOR initiative, which provides free code analysis and audits for the open source community, has analyzed 10 of the […]

Though the term is relatively new to many mainstream IT users, wiki has been around for nearly 12 years. Ward Cunningham is credited with inventing the first wiki, called WikiWikiWeb, which he installed on his own Web site in 1995. Today, wiki usage and adoption within the enterprise are accelerating at a rapid clip. Cunningham […]

Zero-day exploits are perhaps the most dangerous type. By definition they have not been patched and they could literally be out in the wild wreaking havoc. There has long been a debate about when to publicly report zero-day exploits in a responsible manner. Exposing them could end up protecting more users by alerting them to […]

Novell’s OpenSUSE project has released the latest version of its namesake Linux distribution, OpenSUSE 10.2. But you wouldn’t know it if you were waiting for an official announcement from Novell. The latest version of OpenSUSE 10.2 upgrades nearly all of the core packages, including the Linux kernel. OpenSUSE 10.2 includes the “pirate” 2.6.18.2 kernel, Firefox […]

Network Access Control (commonly referred to as NAC) is one of the hottest trends in networking. Although Cisco helped popularize the term (or at least an implementation of NAC), another company just snapped up a patent for it. Mirage Networks has been awarded US Patent #7,124,197 for its NAC technology. The official title, according to […]

In the modern IT infrastructure, multiple programming languages must co-exist with one another. Such is certainly the case with PHP and Java, with PHP being popular as a front-end Web technology and Java remaining popular in back-end infrastructure. With new features in the latest version of PHP and the new Zend Studio version 5.5 IDE […]

After more than a year of active development, the open source PostgreSQL 8.2 database is now available. The release is an effort to close the gap on a performance and functionality basis between PostgreSQL and its competitive proprietary counterparts such as Oracle, IBM’s DB2 and Microsoft’s SQL Server. There are over 200 feature improvements or […]

IBM is extending its Eclipse-based Rational line and offering new standalone support for Eclipse users. Rational Software Delivery Platform 7.0 includes more than a dozen individual Rational products, with the unifying theme being the enablement, use, discovery and creation of SOA , according to Dave Locke, director of offerings marketing for IBM Rational. Locke said […]