Sean Michael Kerner

Although its next major commercial release is still many months away, Red Hat is letting everyone know what major new technology enhancements to expect from its enterprise Linux distribution. For those that don’t want to wait for the next Red Hat Enterprise Linux release, the virtualization and thin client capabilities that Red Hat has expanded […]

Microsoft is hoping to create a new category of PC health services with a service to protect Windows users who are still not running properly updated antivirus solutions. Windows OneCare Live is a subscription-based service that provides automated performance tuning, maintenance, anti-spyware and antivirus protection. First announced in May, Windows OneCare is currently undergoing beta […]

After years of sightings and speculation, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) products are finally hitting the market. Adaptec, LSI Logic and Promise Technologies are among the vendors who have recently announced SAS products and solutions. Adaptec has announced two SAS RAID controllers, a new host bus adapter (HBA), a pair of SAS subsystems, a four-bay internal […]

A new patch is out for a prior version of open source scripting language PHP, which addresses a recently-discovered security issue in version 4. But the current version of PHP 5 may also be at risk from vulnerabilities that aren’t currently patched in that version. PHP is the 10-year-old open source language that is now […]

Linux kernel 2.6.14 is out, the fourth major kernel version of 2005, and chock full of improvements, including driver updates, new virtual filesystems and wireless connectivity improvements. The 2.6.14 kernel comes just two months after the 2.6.13 kernel was released at the end of August. This release also marks the beginning of a new development […]

Sun Microsystems’ pay-per-use grid initiative is in use commercially and has “thousands of customers” waiting in the wings for a public launch. A recent media report alleged that Sun’s pay-per-use $1 per CPU hour initiative, which will launch during the next few weeks according to a company spokeswoman, had yet to log a single customer. […]

Moving to Linux from Windows doesn’t necessarily mean users need to leave their Windows apps behind. With a bit of Wine, Linux users can have their cake and eat it too. Twelve years after the Wine project began in 1993 as a way of running Windows (then Windows 3.1) applications on Unix (now all Unix […]

A pair of recently published IDC Vertical Market forecasts project continued growth for VoIP and WLAN equipment in the U.S. from 2005 through 2009. IDC has forecast WLAN equipment spending to show a five year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of almost 20 percent within each sector. Retail industry spending on IP PBX equipment is […]

Not only is the Pacific Northwest home to Microsoft, it is also an active hotbed of open source development. Google is banking on further developing open source in the region to a tune of $350,000, which is being donated to Oregon State University (OSU) and Portland State University to fund a new open source technology […]

To reach the heights of Mt. Fuji is perhaps what Turbolinux has in mind with the next version of its Linux distribution. Code-named Fuji, version 11 of Turbolinux is initially being targeted at the Japanese market. The company said the new release, which comes two years after version 10, is being issued partially in response […]

Open source database vendor MySQL is out with the latest version of its flagship database, and touting it as the most significant upgrade in its ten-year history. The latest MySQL 5.0 version is designed help relational database systems (RDBS) administrators to both use and transition to MySQL, while providing expanding enterprise features. For example, it […]

Juniper Networks new Infranet Controllers are now available, making the promise of the Infranet a reality. The new product release comes nearly a week after Cisco Systems rolled out enhancements to its competing Network Admission Control (NAC) framework. The “Infranet” is a concept that Juniper has been touting for years as a framework for securing […]