Sean Michael Kerner

Past and current versions of Mozilla’s Firefox 2.0 browser tend to look the same as their predecessors in the 1.5.x series. Starting with Firefox 2.0 Beta 2, that look changes a bit. Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 introduces a visual refresh for the Firefox browser. The refresh is hardly as dramatic as the change between Microsoft’s […]

Integrating various siloed sources of data can be a difficult and expensive proposition. But a company called Jitterbit is betting that its open source integration suite, combined with Web Services technology, will ease the development process. Jitterbit came out of its beta development with a 1.0 release of its self-titled integration suite in May of […]

The first commercial product formally announced by open source virtualization vendor XenSource turned out to be more virtual than the virtualization that the company produces. Its second attempt, however, is very real, though still targeted at the virtual enterprise. XenEnterprise, an enterprise-ready bundle for Xen deployment and management, became official this week, nearly five months […]

Red Hat has long been considered the leading enterprise Linux vendor. It’s a position that Red Hat CTO and Vice President Engineering Brian Stevens is aiming to maintain. Since its inception, Red Hat has striven to challenge the existing software ecosystem. First with its namesake Red Hat Linux, which was discontinued in 2004 (and now […]

If you’re wondering what has happened to Ethereal, one of the most popular packet sniffing tools on the planet, it’s probably because you’re visiting Ethereal.com. Though development on Ethereal may be dead, development on its forked successor Wireshark is alive, well and perhaps more focused than ever before. Wireshark, like Ethereal, is a GPL licensed […]

The key to any successful Web 2.0 deployment is the availability of an open API . It’s a key that Google is now giving out for its base — Google Base that is. The Google Base Data API is now freely available from Google, allowing third party developers to have applications that can interact with […]

Citrix  is extending its partnership with Microsoft  to begin development on an appliance that will integrate technologies from both companies. The new product will include Citrix’s WANScaler solution, Microsoft’s Windows Server and Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server. “Microsoft gives Citrix tremendous credibility, technology and market reach in the branch office market,” Wes Wasson, […]

Real Time operating systems have traditionally been a separate breed from mainstream ones. Thanks to efforts to incorporate Real Time enhancements into Linux, standard mainstream Linux may well become a real, Real Time OS real soon. A Real Time OS offers the promise of better response times and a degree of determinism not found in […]

SAN FRANCISCO — There are a lot of things that Linux users and developers say are good about Linux. But at least one notable Linux kernel developer sees plenty not to love. “I think the enterprise stable kernel model doesn’t work,” said Greg Kroah-Hartman, who works closely with Linus Torvalds and Andrew Morton, the keepers […]

Reporter’s Notebook: SAN FRANCISCO — As I predicted a week ago, the LinuxWorld show here this week had a few surprises. And it had its share of same old, same old. The announcement that HP would formally and fully support Debian kicked off the week. It’s a revelation that will fundamentally change the enterprise Linux […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Few topics are as contentious in the Linux world as GPL 3 , the general public license that details how many open source software programs can be used. During a session at the LinuxWorld conference here, Free Software Foundation counsel and co-author of the GPL 3 draft, Eben Moglen, explained the current […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Peter Levine, the CEO of open source virtualization vendor XenSource, has a tall order. He wants to “enlighten” every operating system on the planet. “Our agenda is to make sure that virtualization shows up everywhere across all systems so we can unlock value in IT,” Levine said during a keynote presentation at […]