Sean Michael Kerner

Over the last several years, Juniper Networks has emerged as one of the biggest and most influential networking firms in the world. Juniper holds a “leadership” position in the SSL-VPN space, is helping China as well as the U.S. to build out IPv6 networks and is upping the stakes in network access control technology with […]

The proverbial ink on the first draft of the GPL version 3 is barely dry and is already generating a flurry of discussion and review. Internetnews.com solicited comments from some vendors about the new GPL version 3 , which is now available in draft . The overall response? Muted, with many taking a wait-and-see approach. […]

SourceForge Enterprise Edition 4.3 (SFEE) is now available boasting several new features that expand the collaborative software development platform. SFEE should not, however, be confused with SourceForge.net. Though both are owned by VA Software , SourceForge.net stands alone as the world’s largest repository of open source software development, and SFEE is a closed source proprietary […]

Yes, you read that headline correctly. Oracle is out with a new security patch addressing 82 vulnerabilities and security issues in various Oracle products. Oracle’s January patch is the first issued since October 2005 when the company patched 89 different vulnerabilities. Security firm Secunia has rated the January vulnerabilities as being “moderately critical.” The vulnerabilities […]

Google Talk is now speaking to other Jabber servers, nearly six months after the company released the instant messaging application. Open federation is now part of Google Talk, meaning the software can communicate eith other Jabber-based instant messaging clients, according to Google’s developer FAQ. This enhanced interoperability is a departure from the software’s initial incarnation. […]

After almost 15 years, its time has finally come. A draft of GNU GPL version 3 is now publicly available for comment and discussion. The defining license of the Free Software movement is undergoing a revision process that will provide the foundation for the next decade’s worth or free and open source software. The proposed […]

With all the chatter about viruses, phishing attacks and all the other mischievous maliciousness online today, you’d think that consumers would be afraid to shop online. Not so, reports a new Business Software Alliance (BSA) study conducted by Harris Interactive. According to 70 percent of the respondents, security concerns did not inhibit them from making […]

Users of PHP versions 4 and 5 users are being advised to upgrade to the latest versions in order to protect against a number of security issues. The new PHP versions also include bug fixes, and in the case of PHP 5.1.2, some new features as well. PHP version 5.1.2 fixes one vulnerability that the […]

Within the next two years, IPsec will no longer be the dominant remote access technology. According to research firm Gartner, SSL-VPNs will be the primary remote access method by 2008 for greater than 90 percent of casual employee access, more than three-fourths of contractors and more than two-thirds of business telecommuting employees. SSL-VPNs offer the […]

IBM, Sony and Toshiba are renewing their joint chip development, extending it with a new, five-year term. The companies said the extension will enable them to work on 32 nanometer related research and advanced process technologies. “By extending this relationship to the next-generation of process technologies and deepening our partnership at the research level, we […]

U.S. taxpayers are now helping to improve open source software code and security thanks to a grant issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Stanford University, Symantec and source code analysis firm Coverity are the three recipients of a DHS grant called “Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation Open Source Hardening Project.” The grant will pay […]

For the most part, ISVs and end users have been able to choose between .NET and J2EE for their application server platforms. Now thanks to a new partnership between IBM and Mainsoft, they can do both. Mainsoft’s new Visual MainWin for J2EE version 1.7, also called “Grasshopper,” is now IBM-validated and provides single source code […]