Sean Michael Kerner

Open source continues to make inroads into enterprise storage, and its latest route is clustered file systems. Red Hat and Oracle have both been active in the open source clustered file system space recently. Oracle recently open-sourced its clustered file system (CFS 2). Red Hat has issued a number of announcements for its Global File […]

Hewlett-Packard is putting its money and some of its internal resources where its mouth is: behind Linux. Linux distributors Red Hat and Novell have signed unrestricted use agreements with HP that allow the tech giant to widely deploy Linux within its organization. Financial terms of the two deals were not disclosed. Efrain Rovira, worldwide director […]

The Race to Linux contest may also turn out to be a foot race in legal minutiae about software licenses. Announced last month by a group called “The Code Project” and Mainsoft Corporation, the contest challenged developers to port three of Microsoft’s ASP.NET starter kits from Windows to Linux. The Race to Linux contest offered […]

Most small and medium sized businesses (SMB) use some form of remote access technology, but many believe that secure socket layer virtual private networks are too pricey, a new study found. The study of 1,000 SMB IT administrators was conducted by SSL-VPN vendor SonicWALL. SSL-VPN remote access technology has been clawing at IP-SEC remote access […]

EBay is set to acquire VeriSign’s payment gateway business as part of a broad strategic alliance between the two companies announced today. EBay’s PayPal unit will pay approximately $370 million in cash and/or EBay stock for the VeriSign unit, in a deal that is expected to close by the end of the year. VeriSign’s payment […]

A new initiative from Novell seeks to unlock a better Linux desktop experience by helping developers better understand how the desktop is used. The Better Desktop initiative officially launched today as part of Novell’s community-driven openSUSE project. The Better Desktop site provides a wealth of usability test data, as well as analysis of various Linux […]

Last month, Microsoft issued no new security bulletins as part of its monthly update. Not one. Nada. Zip. Zilch. This month, though, the tune has changed, as nine patches are on tap, some of them rated as “critical.” According to reports, Windows XP itself may also be getting a Service Pack 3 release in 2006. […]

Out of three distributions comes one. Mandriva 2006, the convergence of the former Mandrake, Connectiva and Lycoris Linux distributions was released today. Mandrake acquired Brazilian Linux vendor Conectiva in February for $2.3 million. In April, the combined entity changed its name to Mandriva. In June Mandriva acquired desktop Linux vendor Lycoris. And now it’s all […]

The way that the open source software development process is supposed to work is that users contribute to the greater whole, thus benefiting everyone. But it doesn’t always work that way. A case in point is the popular Nessus vulnerability scanner, which is moving away from the GPL license for its next version. Nessus is […]

Microsoft is improving its Speech Server platform with new technology from Unveil Technology, which will improve the ability of Microsoft’s users to optimize speech apps. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Existing Unveil customers will maintain their ties to its technology once the deal closes. Unveil Technology is a Waltham, Mass.-based company whose […]

Sun Wah Linux is set to deploy nearly 142,000 Linux PCs in what it is proclaiming as the largest Linux desktop rollout in China so far. Sun Wah is touting the roll out as a win in the battle against Microsoft in China. The deployment is being made in the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education […]

Web sites are more than image-builders for small to medium-sized businesses. They’re about leads and sales as well. According to the ISP Interland’s Summer 2005 Small and Medium-sized Business Barometer, 76 percent of SMBs said they pluck plenty of leads from their Web sites. Another 57 noted in the survey said they generate leads from […]