Sean Michael Kerner

Microsoft’s next-generation browser, Internet Explorer 7 (IE7), is rounding the corner and getting the “spit and polish” it needs as it heads into the stretch run of its final release. According to one Microsoft developer, IE 7 is now actually considered to be “layout complete.” In an online chat hosted by Microsoft’s IE development team […]

Linux is coming to a phone near you soon if Motorola has anything to say about it. According to a company executive, the cell phone giant is now positioning Linux to be its default platform for innovation. Motorola has been using Linux on its cell phones since 2003 when it released its A760 device. Mark […]

Dell has no plans to make its own operating system or fabricate its own chip silicon anytime soon, according to Dell CTO Kevin Kettler. Kettler hosted an informal dinner with a very small select group of technology industry journalists in Boston last week. The dinner discussion ran the gambit from Michael Dell’s leadership style to […]

There are lots of opinions on Red Hat’s acquisition of JBoss. Marc Fleury, CEO of JBoss, shared his thoughts on the deal and the prospect for future success during Red Hat’s Open House for Institutional Investors, which was held today. Fleury’s comments flew in the face of a 2004 blog posting by Fleury about his […]

Red Hat’s acquisition of JBoss today is getting mixed reviews from industry analysts. It’s clear that Red Hat will benefit in a variety of ways, but there may be potential downsides, as well, including culture issues and potential conflict with IBM. Burton Group analyst Anne Thomas Manes noted that the deal will be beneficial to […]

Reporter’s Notebook: BOSTON — “What do you think of the show?” This is the question I heard all week at LinuxWorld here. It turns out that many of my journalist peers, a few speakers and a number of vendors weren’t as impressed by the show as I was. This was the year when neither HP […]

BOSTON — It seems kind of strange to have Microsoft, long considered the open source “enemy,” to deliver a keynote at a conference about Linux, but that’s exactly what happened in Boston today. Microsoft Platform Technology Strategy Director Bill Hilf delivered a keynote on interoperability between Windows and Linux and discussed the maturation of the […]

BOSTON — Open source startups are changing the rules of the traditional enterprise software market. At least that’s what a panel made up of MySQL, JBoss, SugarCRM and XenSource heads and moderated by VA Software chairman Larry Augustin was happy to proclaim loudly and clearly. John Roberts, CEO and co-founder of open source CRM vendor […]

BOSTON — In a fiery session interrupted by a fire alarm (apparently the UNISYS booth had a server overheat that started smoking), leaders of all three principal open source stacks (LAMP, J2EE and .NET) on Linux debated the merits of their respective platforms. Though the session started with a tongue-in-cheek remark from JBoss about the […]

BOSTON — Dell’s Chief Technology Office Kevin Kettler presented Dell’s vision for virtualization at this morning’s keynote here. It’s a powerful vision that extends virtualization beyond its traditional uses and into the mainstream. Kettler began his presentation by reminding the crowd of a comment his boss Dell founder Michael Dell said during a LinuxWorld 2000 […]

BOSTON — The under-discussion GPL version 3 license is a bit of a hot potato. Some like it and others, such as Linux creator Linus Torvalds, do not. In a well attended birds-of-a-feather session here at LinuxWorld, Free Software Foundation counsel and co-author of the GPL 3 draft Eben Moglen explained the current status of […]

BOSTON — IBM and HP are striking up new open source stack initiatives, as the two big Linux systems and services vendors continue to evolve their respective open source offerings. HP’s Open Source Integrated Portfolio (OSIP) is comprised of HP Open Source Middleware Stacks (OSMS), which is a new service and open source product offering […]