Sean Michael Kerner

Linux has always enabled network admins to use commodity x86 hardware as a router platform. But Vyatta, an open source startup, thinks it can take open source routing a step further with its Open Flexible Router (OFR). Vyatta claims that OFR is “the first enterprise-grade, open-source router platform.” It is currently a software-only based solution […]

There was a time when a wiki was a tool simply for creating, collaborating and sharing unstructured data in an easy way. But the newest version of Jotspot Wiki, released today, expands upon this idea and is a full-fledged collaboration system with improved features, user interface and usability. Jotspot has been evolving the concept of […]

For many Windows users, tabbed browsing is a key attraction for the Mozilla family of browsers. The ability to add multiple ‘tabbed’ views within one browser window is a feature that some users like to push to extremes. Microsoft’s current stable production version of Internet Explorer does not include tabs, though its next generation version […]

To many, AJAX and open source are just words. For Zimbra they’re its business. The collaboration space has long been dominated by proprietary vendor offerings, including IBM’s Lotus Notes, Novell GroupWise and Microsoft’s Exchange. Zimbra, which emerged from stealth mode earlier this year, offers a slick AJAX-powered open source alternative. The Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) […]

Metro Ethernet is not just a North American or European phenomenon. Asia’s got it, too, and it’s hitting big. According to a recent report from Yankee Group, the Asia-Pacific region is worth $675 million in Metro Ethernet revenues, second only to Europe. Within Asia, China is expected to be the fastest-developing market for Metro Ethernet […]

Oracle’s July Critical Patch Update (CPU) is now out with fixes for a whopping 65 bugs. Security firm Secunia rated the aggregate of the vulnerabilities “highly critical.” The July patch haul is a significant increase over the 36 flaws that Oracle’s last quarterly update in April repaired. But it is fewer than the 82 flaws […]

AOL’s latest professional instant messaging client is now available for business consumption. AIM Pro is set for general availability release today, marking AOL’s latest entrant into the competitive enterprise messaging and collaboration space. AIM Pro is free and includes new security, collaboration, voice and content features. The AIM Pro client was first announced in February […]

SCO is appealing a recent ruling that would strike down nearly two-thirds of its claims in its ongoing legal battle against IBM over alleged misappropriated portions of Unix code. The filing follows a June decision by Utah district court Judge Brooke Wells who ruled in favor of granting IBM’s motion to eliminate 187 of the […]

Security researcher H.D. Moore has released a new malware search engine and its underlying code to help searchers find malware code that Google has indexed. But Google isn’t exactly happy about it. Moore who co-authored the Metasploit Framework, a platform for testing and developing exploit code, also launched his Month of Browser Bugs (MoBB) project, […]

Linux leader Red Hat is aggressively pushing its Linux solutions into the telecom space with a series of new partner initiatives. One part of the push is Red Hat’s partnership with IBM and HP , which is intended to produce a hardware and software combination targeted at carrier-grade deployment. The other part is Red Hat’s […]

There was a time when running Linux on a Windows Server would have been considered taboo by Microsoft. Times do change. Microsoft is entering into a co-operative technology development deal with open source virtualization vendor XenSource. The co-operative development initiative aims to provide interoperability between Microsoft’s Windows Server virtualization and the open source Xen hypervisor. […]

Windows, Linux or Mac — does operating system or platform matter to hackers? Not necessarily, according to research from Fortify Software, an application security provider. In a new report, the firm said hackers aren’t necessarily targeting operating systems but rather applications themselves, a scenario that Fortify describes as bot “storms” in which applications are targeted. […]