Sean Michael Kerner

Fit and finish, that’s what’s left and then a shiny new Mozilla Firefox Web browser will be fit for public consumption. Firefox 2.0 release candidate 1 (RC1) will be available for download starting at 6 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) today. The release isn’t expected to introduce any new features or major functionally but it […]

IBM is rolling out a trio of new Web-based development services, as the first from the newly launched alphaWorks Services site. The services extend IBM’s 10-year-old alphaWorks efforts into the software as a service arena. Chris Spencer, emerging technologies strategist for IBM alphaWorks, explained to internetnews.com that alphaWorks is essentially a conduit between IBM’s R&D […]

The SCO vs. IBM case may never make it to trial. SCO and IBM have filed court documents asking for summary judgment in a suit originally filed in 2003 over alleged Unix trade-secret violations. The U.S. District Court for the District of Utah had imposed a Sept. 25 deadline for the two parties to file […]

Who doesn’t want more bandwidth? Cisco Systems is helping its customers deploy more bandwidth, thanks to a series of new 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) products announced today. The new product releases are part of Cisco’s effort to help it capitalize on the increasing demand for 10 GbE. The new 8 port 10 GbE module […]

Linux creator Linus Torvalds has opposed GPL version 3 since its draft surfaced in January. Nine months and one discussion draft later, he still isn’t having it and he’s not alone. A who’s who list of the top Linux kernel developers has joined Torvalds in rejection of the proposed GPLv3. If it ain’t broke don’t […]

Reporter’s Notebook: Earlier this week, I postulated that there wouldn’t be all that much that is new or surprising at Interop NY. Little did I know that one of the world’s largest and most influential networking vendors, Cisco Systems , would not be an exhibitor at the show. Cisco isn’t the only major IT vendor […]

NEW YORK — Though Ethernet may be everywhere in the enterprise, it isn’t everywhere in Municipal/Metro Area Networks (MAN). Yet. Depending on whether you ask Verizon or AT&T, the time for Metro Ethernet is either now or still a few years away. Mike Tighe the chairman of the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) and also director […]

NEW YORK — Ever wanted to make a New York minute even faster? Citrix Systems used the Interop show here as the launch pad for its latest WAN and application acceleration products WANScaler 8000 and NetScaler 7. The WANScaler product takes advantage of Multi-level Compression technology that comes as the result of Citrix’s acquisition of […]

NEW YORK — There’s a lot to be afraid of in the world of network security threats. That was the general consensus of a diverse panel at Interop that included vendors, an analyst and an enterprise user. The panel agreed that NAC (network access control) isn’t necessarily the solution and that much more needs to […]

NEW YORK — Is now the right time to buy into NAC? Network Access Control (NAC) vendors would like you to think so. But if audience reaction at the Interop conference here is any indication, vendors would be wise to wait until broader industry standards exist. That said, NAC may well be widespread within the […]

“Ahoy! She’s good to go, hoist anchor! Here’s some real booty for all you land-lubbers. There’s not too many changes, with t’bulk of the patch bein’ defconfig updates, but the shortlog at the aft of this here email describes the details if you care, you scurvy dogs.” — Linus “but you can call me Cap’n.” […]

NEW YORK — Is faster necessarily better? In a boisterous over-capacity and overtime session at Interop here today, vendors debated the merits of WAN and application acceleration and whether transparency is required for them to actually work within enterprise environments. Moderator Erick Siegel, a senior analyst at Burton Group, began the session with a long […]