Sean Michael Kerner

The idea that software can exist on its own as a software appliance is a revolutionary idea. It’s a revolution that Raleigh, N.C.-based rPath is helping to spearhead with its open source solutions that enable users to easily build and deploy software appliances. Rpath rolled out its rPath Builder online software earlier this year and […]

The SCO versus Novell legal battle has been a blow-by-blow affair since the beginning might continue to be so even as SCO continues with its other legal battlefront against IBM . But could IBM and Novell be co-coordinating their legal offensives against SCO? In the latest round of the SCO versus Novell saga, SCO has […]

Qt (pronounced Cute) is perhaps best known as the application development framework behind the open source KDE  Linux desktop. It’s now ready to build applications for the competing GNOME  Linux desktop and is ready for Windows Vista as well. Qt 4.2 is the latest version of the C++ application development framework from Norway-based Trolltech. Cross […]

In the beginning, Google was all about indexing Web pages, then it grew to news, blogs and video. Now Google is embarking on, perhaps, its most ambitious indexing venture yet: indexing countless billions of lines of code as part of the new Google Code Search. Google Code Search on Google Labs gives users a place […]

The Pacific Ocean apparently isn’t the only thing that divides the U.S. and Japan. The attitudes of how the two countries consume and deploy open source technologies differ as well. At least that’s the opinion of open source stack vendor SpikeSource, which now has a global partnership with Japan’s NEC . SpikeSource is also now […]

Looking to include a slick AJAX search tool into your own site? You may need to look no further than Google . The search giant today rolled out version 1.0 beta of the Google AJAX Search API. The API  had been at the experimental version 0.1 for the past three months. Google Product Manager Tom […]

The Mule open source enterprise service bus (ESB) is moving upstream with its latest release, a round of venture capital financing and the launch of its commercial support firm MuleSource. Mule is a Java-based integration platform designed around an enterprise service bus architecture (ESB). ESBs  enable various applications and components to communicate with each other […]

Juniper Networks  said it will stop making new NetScreen security devices, replacing them with new Secure Services Gateway (SSG) machines. The SSG product line was Juniper filled out the SSG line, introduced earlier this year, today with the SSG 5, SSG 20 and SSG 140 lines. The SSG appliances, though not carrying the NetScreen name, […]

Instant messaging security firms are reporting a dramatic rise in the number of attacks. Akonix Systems said the month of September holds the dubious distinction of having the most attacks in any month this year at 64. The September figure follows a disastrous August in which Akonix reported a 200 percent increase in the number […]

If you’re looking to avoid phishing sites, you may need to look no further than Microsoft’s soon to be released Internet Explorer 7 browser. According to a new study published by technical services firm 3Sharp, security features in Microsoft’s IE 7 lead a pack of anti-phishing utilities from Netcraft, Google, eBay and Geotrust. The study […]

The projects are in and the mentors have filed their evaluations. In the final tally, it looks like Google’s Summer of Code 2006 was a success. The program, having just finished its second year, provides funding to students and open source organizations for project development. In 2005, Google accepted 410 projects. In 2006, Google’s Summer […]

When most people think about the Mozilla Firefox browser, they think of it as being open source and free. The truth is, while Mozilla Firefox is open source, it is not entirely free, and it may not even be legally compatible with Debian GNU/Linux, one of the most popular community Linux distribution bases. The issue […]