Sean Michael Kerner

TORONTO — Scott Handy says there’s more to open standards and open source than just Linux. Handy, who is the vice president of worldwide Linux business strategy at IBM, delivered a keynote on the second day of LinuxWorld Canada. In his remarks, he struck a similar tone as Novell’s David Patrick did yesterday, noting how […]

TORONTO — Linux and open source technologies are more than just clones of existing applications — they drive innovation, the chief Linux czar for Novell said today. During a keynote address at the LinuxWorld conference here, David Patrick, general manager of Linux, Open Source Platforms and Services for Novell, said the current open source ecosystem […]

According to IDC, the worldwide market for high-performance technical servers grew by 30 percent in 2004. IDC’s data shows that the high-performance computing (HPC) market hit $7.25 billion in 2004 up from $5.6 billion in 2003. The high performance technical server market includes supercomputers as well as high end/high capacity clusters. 2004 marks a recovery […]

Microsoft’s mammoth release of 18 patches this week may have surprised some, but not customers of network security firm iDefense. Microsoft’s own publicly disclosed advanced notice of its patch plans, released last week, did not include mention of known Internet Explorer vulnerabilities, but iDefense customers did know about them. In fact, of the 18 vulnerabilities […]

New data released this week from research firm Evans Data shows that non-commercial Linux distribution use has passed the inflection point and is now more widely used by developers than commercial Linux distributions. Commercial Linux distros are those that are available for a fee, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Enterprise Linux Server and […]

Media ratings company Nielsen/NetRatings today reported that the Mozilla.org Web site has benefited from its Firefox browser’s popularity with a surge in unique audience over the last 12 months. In March 2004, Nielsen/NetRatings reported that Mozilla.org had a unique audience of 1.1 million home and work Internet users in the U.S. That number jumped 284 […]

Neither SCO Group’s copyright claims on select Linux code nor Microsoft will be able to slow the spread of Linux in the enterprise over the next two years, an analyst for Gartner Research said. The biggest hurdles to greater Linux enterprise penetration are process-based, according to George Weiss. In a conference call sponsored by Unisys, […]

Novell today announced its latest Linux-based point of sale solution, Novell Linux Point of Service 9. Novell claims that the solution is the only Linux distribution specifically designed for retail point of service. Novell Linux Point of Service 9 is based on SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server (SLES) and Novell Desktop and is intended for retail […]

The wildly popular Debian-based Ubuntu Linux distribution released its newest version, code-named Hoary Hedgehog, today. But Debian’s own offering, code-named Sarge, remains on the sidelines. The question of which Linux distribution is the most popular is a difficult one to measure. DistroWatch.com currently has Ubuntu ranked on top based on its page hit rankings statistics, […]

As part of its regular monthly patch cycle, Microsoft is set to release five security updates next week. The updates include fixes for “critical” issues in Microsoft Office and Exchange as well as MSN Messenger. Microsoft also said it would release an updated version of the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool on Windows Update […]

The eyes of the world have been on the Web site of the world’s smallest nation this week, placing the site’s servers under heavy demand. Friday’s papal funeral is being seen around the globe and is considered by many to be an “event for the ages.” It is also putting unprecedented global demand on the […]

TORONTO — In January 2003, a Toronto Police detective sent an e-mail to Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates asking for help in the fight against child exploitation. Today that plea was answered with the official launch of the Child Exploitation Tracking System (CETS). Development of the CETS system began in 2003 and […]