Sean Michael Kerner

A new Mac OS X worm is slithering around the Internet, apparently trying to capitalize on users’ curiosity about the upcoming 10.5 “Leopard” operating system. Antivirus vendors Fortinet, McAfee, Sophos, Symantec and others dubbed it Leap.A. Security rating firm Secunia has ranked the worm as a “very low risk” and major antivirus vendors have provided […]

The future of the Palm OS is Linux. That statement shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, as PalmSource has been talking about Linux for more than a year. This week, however, the company has made good on its intention to move to Linux, with the announcement of a new Linux platform destined to become […]

Apple’s Mac users now have yet another browser choice. In addition to Apple’s Safari, Opera, Mozilla SeaMonkey and Mozilla FireFox, Mac users now have their very own Mac specific Mozilla based browser called Camino. Camino 1.0 was officially released this week after four years of development. Like its popular cousin FireFox, Camino is based on […]

Is Linux cheaper than Windows to manage? As part of its “Get The Facts” campaign, Microsoft has argued for years that Linux is more expensive to manage than Windows. A new study out this week from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), sponsored by the Linux backers OSDL and Levanta, asserts that Linux is now in fact […]

Eight of the world’s largest domain registrars have sent an open letter to ICANN Chairman Vint Cerf, stating their formal opposition to the revised proposition with VeriSign for continued control of the Internet registry. The eight signatories, which lay claim to 25 million domain names, or 57 percent of those currently registered, are GoDaddy, Network […]

Apple has updated its OS X Tiger operating system, fixing numerous issues on both Intel and PowerPC based Macs. The OS X Tiger 10.4.5 update comes after Russian hacker “Maxxuss” claimed that version 10.4.4 for Intel possessors had been cracked. Addressed in 10.4.5 are fixes to its Safari Web browser that had caused it to […]

Open source virtualization vendor XenSource is getting a new CEO. Former Veritas executive Peter Levine has been named president and CEO of the open source startup. Most recently a managing director at the Mayfield Fund, Levine was previously executive vice president for Strategic and Platform Operations at Veritas leading global marketing and OEM sales. Levine […]

Who doesn’t like sugar? Especially on Valentine’s Day? Microsoft and open source CRM vendor SugarCRM are collaborating in a technical partnership that will see a new Windows version of SugarCRM released under a Microsoft Shared Source license. The move may well be a herald of things to come, as Microsoft attempts to attract open source […]

It turns out that one-third of the rumor surrounding Oracle buying a trio of open source companies was true. Oracle today announced that it will acquire open source database vendor Sleepycat. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition adds Sleepycat’s line of open source Berkeley DB databases to Oracle’s embedded database product […]

The question of how operating systems vendors charge for multi-processor and virtualized instances is not an easy one to answer. In the case of Linux at least, depending on which vendor you choose, you could be paying more or less for each virtualized Linux instance. HP today announced a new deal with Novell that aims […]

As Linux matures as a viable operating system for mobile devices so, too, does the surrounding ecosystem of development tools. Trolltech is doing its part to boost mobile Linux adoption with the release today of Qtopia 4, which is based on its Qt (pronounced cute) 4 development platform. Qt is a C++ application development framework […]