Sean Michael Kerner

Enterprises can now get their business intelligence open source style. Pentaho and JasperSoft have updated their BI platforms as each vendor ramps up efforts to gain a slice of the BI pie. For its part, JasperSoft claims that its open source BI software is already deployed in over 10,000 businesses and has had more than […]

In the eyes of some in the open source community, Microsoft has long been the poster child of everything that is bad with proprietary closed software and vendor lock-in. In recent times, the icy divide and the tremendous animosity between users of Microsoft’s products and those who use open source products has thawed greatly. Earlier […]

Open source database firm MySQL is building its own transactional database engine as an option to Oracle’s InnoDB. MySQL is also expanding its networking offering, prepping a new release of its namesake database and talking up a new database design tool as part of its users’ conference which gets under way next week. The new […]

Recent studies confirm that e-mail authenticated by either the Microsoft-backed Sender ID Framework (SIDF) or the Yahoo-backed DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) efforts have risen dramatically in the past year. The growth comes as large e-mail providers and ISPs adopt e-mail authentication technology in an effort to help thwart spam and phishing attacks. Though they differ […]

CERT today issued a security alert for a host of Oracle infrastructure and application software products. The alert was triggered after Oracle revealed in its regular security update cycle that a number of its products were at risk from various vulnerabilities. Oracle’s April update patches some 36 different vulnerabilities that affect is products. According to […]

As rumors swirl about Oracle’s desire to buy a Linux distribution, some might wonder just how much money the company makes from its Linux pursuits. It’s important to note that the company is already a Linux power, offering its namesake database on Linux since 1998 and owning a majority interest in a Linux distribution. So […]

The Linux market in China continues to grow, according to a new research report from IDC. And it is apparently growing partially at the expense of Linux nemesis SCO. IDC’s “China Linux 2006-2010 Forecast and Analysis” report pegs the compound annual growth rate for 2006 to 2010 of Linux in China to be 34 percent, […]

Users of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) no longer need to slow down their traffic in order to analyze it for potential threats. Force10 Networks is claiming that its new P-Series security appliances are the first to perform deep-packet intrusion detection at full 10 GbE line rate speeds. For 10 GbE networking, it’s all about timing. […]

MySQL may soon have another choice for a transaction storage engine besides Oracle’s InnoDB, thanks to Solid Information Technology and its SolidDB. Last October Oracle bought Finnish database vendor Innobase and its InnoDB database technology, which is a critical component of MySQL’s database. The acquisition raised the ire of some in the open source community […]

HP is one of the largest vendors of open source and Linux solutions on the planet today. Beyond just selling and supporting Linux, HP also contributes to open source development in myriad ways. From the OpenLDAP project to wireless extensions for Linux and everything in between. HP recently unveiled the Open Source Integrated Portfolio (OSIP), […]

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.2 is now available fixing five bugs that developers have tagged as “critical.” Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory (MFSA) 2006-20 is a fix for crashes that were caused by DHTML . According to the advisory, “some of these crashes showed evidence of memory corruption that we presume could be exploited to run arbitrary code […]

In the “fat” client desktop world, the concept of embedding one application’s content in another is nothing new. Doing the same thing online via AJAX, however, has not yet been commonplace, but thanks to a new proposed specification being heralded by Zimbra called ALE (AJAX Linking and Embedding), that may be about to change. Satish […]