Sean Michael Kerner

Ebay has long billed itself as a marketplace platform that enriches its users in new and unique ways. That marketplace took another step forward in that regard today with the official launch ebaywiki.com. Ebay’s embrace of wiki technology may also serve as validation that wikis are ready for prime time mass consumer usage. The eBay […]

IBM  is donating some of its IT management wisdom to the Apache Software Foundation. But there’s more to it than just goodwill. You could say that Apache is Big Blue’s open source muse, or at least one of them. The wisdom, in this case, is actually WSDM (Web Services for Distributed Management, pronounced “wisdom”), which […]

It was one year ago today that Sun officially opened the doors to its OpenSolaris open source operating system effort. At the time there were questions as to whether there would in fact be a community that would grow around OpenSolaris, whether it would actually get used and how its technologies may or may not […]

Almost all Java-based middleware stacks today that provide support for Service Oriented Architecture  are based on J2EE , which is now called Java EE. A new startup is out to change some minds about that. With $4 million in funding from Intel Capital freshly in its coffers, WSO2 has hung out a shingle with a […]

Worm wrigglers have apparently targeted Yahoo’s popular Web mail service with a new virus that aims to spread via a user’s Yahoo Mail address book. But so far, its impact has been zilch. The worm is known as YAMANER and is written in JavaScript . Security firm Symantec noted in a published advisory that the […]

Oracle doesn’t officially have its own Linux stack, but it is making it easier for users to put together their own. The database giant has rolled out its Oracle Validated Configurations program. It defines an end to end configuration stack of hardware, storage, networking components as well as Linux operating system and application software. This […]

Passwords, passwords passwords. Managing your identity in the Internet of 2006 is a complex Web that requires multiple identities and passwords for multiple sites and services. Enter the Bandit project. This open source effort led by Novell aims to integrate disparate identity standards and projects in an effort to help create an identity system that […]

Heads up Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon.com: eBay is heating up your contextual ad competition. It’s also pitching to win developers’ hearts and minds the old fashioned way, with cash. The auction giant is aggressively expanding its developer offering with no less than four new APIs  that will enable search, shopping cart and product info, […]

Smile pretty, Ethernet. The networking architecture  first developed 30 years ago is about to get a really big closeup now that networking vendors Nortel, Cisco and Juniper Networks have unveiled a barrage of carrier grade Ethernet products. What’s driving the rollout? So-called quad plays, such as voice, data, video and mobile offerings by major carriers. […]

IBM wants better AJAX, and it believes the Open Source Dojo is the way to make it happen. The company announced it is partnering with the Open Source Dojo Foundation in an effort to help further AJAX development. As part of its involvement, IBM is open sourcing code to help the Dojo toolkit improve its […]

Open Source VoIP vendor Digium is releasing the latest version of the Asterisk Business Edition this week, which includes new security and voice features, as well as a new Linux distribution base. Asterisk is an open source IP-PBX with interactive voice response (IVR ), voicemail, caller ID and conference calling on its long list of […]

If you had doubts of enterprise support for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, rest easy. Thanks to HP’s support, The community-based distribution is now certified compliant with the OSDL Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) 2.0.2 specification. Debian GNU/Linux is a community effort that does not have explicit enterprise offering or formal support on its own, though there […]