Sean Michael Kerner

Compuware announced late yesterday that it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Toronto-based Changepoint for $100 million in cash. In an end-of-day conference call, Compuware Chairman and CEO Peter Karmanos, Jr., said the acquisition follows through on intentions he expressed to investors in January about acquiring an IT governance company. Karmanos believes that IT governance […]

Now that the founder and chief architect of the Gentoo Linux project, Daniel Robbins, has resigned from his post, what’s next for Gentoo’s growth ambitions with enterprise distributions? On the heels of Gentoo Project’s latest Linux distribution, version 2004.1 which came out today, contributors and project managers said Robbins’ departure may help spur Gentoo to […]

Nortel Networks today fired president and CEO Frank Dunn amid ongoing questions about the company’s accounting. The Toronto communications equipment giant also dismissed CFO Douglas Beatty and controller Michael Gollogly, both of whom had been on paid leave since last month. “The actions announced today are about accountability for our financial reporting and are in […]

“Last mile” fixed wireless broadband technology known as WiMAX continues to gain momentum with four new telecommunications providers joining the industry working group WiMAX Forum. The service providers that signed up with the WiMAX forum Monday yesterday, BT, France Telecom, Qwest Communications, Reliance Telecom and XO Communications. The non-profit WiMAX Forum exists to promote and […]

A handful of large and mid-tier software vendors are rumbling about what customers really want as the enterprise resource planning (ERP) sector continues to define itself. The marketplace, which includes collaborative suits such as Customer Resource Management (CRM), Human Resource Management or Financial Management Services is currently dominated by German-owned SAP and Redwood Shores, Calif.-based […]

Akamai’s EdgePlatform is used by many companies in order to make sure their content is served up fast and reliably across the globe. Now, the distributed hosting platform is moving to offer utility-style dynamic imaging that lets Web sites plug-and-play image manipulations as they need the services on their sites. Called Dynamic Imaging On Demand […]

IBM has rolled out a new on-demand initiative geared at providing desktop level support to small and medium sized businesses and geared for a Windows environment. The pitch is thus: IBM puts a server with desktop management tools at your location and then remotely manages virus detection and protection, operating system and application updates and […]

Some of the world’s busiest foreign exchange traders are slated to shift to a real-time standards based messaging system built by Jabber. The Denver-based Jabber, which has its original roots in the open source Jabber project (now known as the Jabber Foundation) said it has formalized an agreement with EBS to provide an Extensible Messaging […]

Fewer than half of all organizations reported IT security breaches in the past six months — provided at least one-quarter of their IT staff were trained and certified in security, a new survey says. According to its second annual survey slated for release on Monday, the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) found that organizations reported […]

HP’s impact on the Linux community has been widespread and well documented. The Palo Alto, Calif., company was first to indemnify customers against SCO Group intellectual property lawsuits. In 2003, HP reported $2.5 billion in revenue from the open source system. According to research firm IDC, it also had the No. 1 position in the […]

Compuware Corporation’s Covisint division has struck a deal that will see more than 6,000 General Motors suppliers use the firm’s messaging platform to combine XML formats data with traditional Electronic Data Interchange . The conversion from the 30-year-old data interchange system is expected to be completed by year-end. General Motors will be using the Covisint […]

Two Time Warner divisions, AOL and Time Warner Cable are teaming up like they never did before to cross promote each other’s services. Time Warner Cable and its broadband Road Runner service customers across the U.S will now have access to AOL for Broadband content, as a result of the new arrangement. On the flip […]