Sean Michael Kerner

Adding network and storage expertise, Graphics technology manufacturer NVIDIA today announced that it has acquired the technology assets of iReady Corp. Financial terms were not disclosed. Privately held iReady holds several patents for high-performance networking and iSCSI technologies. iSCSI is an Internet Protocol-based standard for linking data storage devices over a network. NVIDIA also acquired […]

You might say everyone in the online scamming industry has gone “phishing,” judging by skyrocketing statistics on the scam from MessageLabs and other online security groups. MessageLabs said e-mail scams by way of phishing — those legitimate-looking e-mails that try to trick users into surrendering private information that will be used for identity theft — […]

In a move to address corporate risk management rules for critical operations, the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) is offering a range of commercial support for its open source Domain Name Server tool BIND as part of new security features in the latest version of BIND 9.3. BIND, an acronym that stands for Berkeley Internet Name […]

In the pre-dawn of the Web era, only a handful of tools sat on every developer’s desk. Chief among them was WS_FTP, the File Transfer Protocol client launched in 1992 by Ipswitch. Twelve years and so many file transfers later, the Lexington, Mass.-based company said it has passed the 40 million-user milestone for the stalwart […]

Compuware Corporation has unveiled the latest version of Uniface, its toolset for building service-oriented architecture (SOA). The upgrade offers new features and Web services enhancements. Uniface is Compuware’s application development environment based on a model-driven, component-based approach to implementing an SOA . The Detroit-based company’s pitch for using its tools is that Uniface’s SOA approach […]

The creator of the Linux operating system, Linus Torvalds, has weighed in on the issue of backporting features from newer Linux kernels into older ones, calling the practice a good thing for the most part. Torvalds comments, in an e-mail interview with internetnews.com, came after SUSE’S CTO, Juergen Geck, told an audience at the Real […]

A new survey shows that Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system has finally overtaken Windows 2000 as a target for developers. According to Evans Data Corp., the number of developers aiming for Windows XP surged 150 percent over the previous year. At the same time, the number of developers writing for Windows 2000 fell by nearly […]

TORONTO — SUSE’s chief technology officer said he believes the practice of “backporting” features from the 2.6 Linux kernel into older versions is a “bad thing” because it interferes with standardization of the open source operating system. During a keynote address at the Real World Linux Conference here Thursday, Juergen Geck also chided industry players […]

TORONTO — The co-founder of the GNOME Unix and Linux development platform and enterprise Linux desktop project Ximian said he’s had it with all this talk about Linux as the future of desktop computing. “I’m sick of being the future,” Nat Friedman told a standing room only audience during a keynote speech at the Real […]

TORONTO — The Real World Linux 2004 conference has rolled into Canada with the open source world’s players in tow and High Performance Computing among their list of advances to show and tell. In addition to HPC clustering, other tracks during the event, which kicks off in full Wednesday, will cover government, security, desktop, networking […]

One of the large issues confronting organizations adoption of Linux is the availability of their WIN32 applications. With that in mind, Wine, a popular open source project, has released its latest version (snapshot), which builds on the process of making it easier to run WIN32 application under Linux variants known as *nix. The latest release […]

The X.Org Foundation has announced its first official release of the X Window System, effectively trumping rival XFree86, from which it originally forked over a licensing issue. Called X Window System Version 11 Release 6.7 (X11R6.7), a windowing system for computers with bitmap displays, the release is the first since X.Org became a Foundation in […]