Sean Michael Kerner

Enterprise LAMP took a step forward today with the release of ActiveGrid Application Builder and LAMP Application Server 1.0 versions. The LAMP application stack has long been a favorite of open source developers, and ActiveGrid’s LAMP releases aim to take the open source stack up to the enterprise level to compete with J2EE and .NET. […]

MontaVista Linux claims that is has narrowed the real-time gap for Linux. The embedded Linux maker announced that is has successfully developed native, hard, real-time developments for the Linux kernel. Thanks to the new real time developments, MontaVista claims that Linux is now closer to achieving “interrupt response characteristics.” Those characteristics have never before been […]

Jupitermedia Corporation has sold its ClickZ.com network, SearchEngineWatch.com and SearchEngine Strategies show to UK based Incisive Media plc for $43 million in cash, the companies announced today. The deal is expected to close this month. Incisive Media is a London-based business information provider with interests in seven markets, including retail investment, insurance, financial risk management, […]

Novell has struck back against SCO with a countersuit of “slander of title” over ownership of Unix operating system copyrights. Novell’s suit widens the conflict by also potentially involving Sun Microsystems and Microsoft, as well. The suit was filed on Friday in a U.S. district court in Utah as an answer and counterclaim to SCO’s […]

Hold on to your credit cards, there’s a newly revised shopping portal in town. After a two-week beta testing period, Microsoft has launched its revised MSN Shopping portal. The comparison shopping engine is now packed with more “stuff” and boasts a six-fold increase in items and a hundred times more merchants. The new site has […]

Bypassing Microsoft’s automated check for pirated software may be as simple as inputting one line of code. Allegedly within 24 hours of Microsoft officially requiring users of its Windows XP software to validate the authenticity of their software, the validation method was allegedly cracked and disclosed in a public blog. Late last week, the code […]

Intellectual property (IP) software firm Black Duck Software announced a partnership with SourceForge.net today allowing it to house a replicated version of the open source software repository. Customers of Black Duck’s protexIP software compliance management platform will use the replicated SourceForge.net to ensure license and IP compliance. The Black Duck protexIP system helps companies validate […]

Are you a Fedora Linux user that wants to contribute to the community but don’t know how? You could start by “Zapping” bugs. A new community-driven effort by the hobbyist Linux distribution community is underway, part of an effort to engage and expand Fedora’s user base in order to rid Red Hat’s community distribution of […]

Open Source adoption among developers is expected to grow at a faster pace in the Asia Pacific region (APAC) than in North America. The finding comes from Evans Data Spring 2005 Asia Pacific Development Survey, which reported that 47 percent of APAC developers plan on upping their use of open source next year. In contrast, […]

Linux and iSCSI are two technologies that are gaining ground in the storage space. And thanks to a reborn effort, the two may be poised to gain together. In April, two of the leading open source iSCSI initiator projects, Open-iSCSI and Linux-iSCSI, merged, potentially heralding a new era for iSCSI on Linux. In another sign […]

UPDATED: Well, that didn’t take long. Barely a day after Microsoft released beta versions of Windows Vista and IE 7 to a select group of developers and testers, both applications have been pirated and are now available on P2P networks. On July 27, Microsoft released the Windows Vista beta, which included the IE 7 beta. […]

IBM and Avaya have announced an agreement to include Avaya-powered “click-to-call” functionality and web conferencing integration into IBM’s Lotus Sametime, Notes, and Domino products. The click-to-call functionality will allow IBM’s Lotus Sametime, Notes, and Domino users to seamlessly place a VoIP call directly from their instant messaging or email client. Conferencing multiple users (“click-to-conference”) is […]