Sean Michael Kerner

Red Hat reported its second quarter fiscal 2014 earnings late Monday, once again showing continued demand for the company’s Linux and open source technologies. Red Hat’s CEO used the call as an opportunity to detail the competitive landscape as well as identifying where business is coming from. For the quarter, Red Hat reported revenue of […]

Getting involved in Linux kernel development is not that hard if you know where to look. That’s the message delivered by Linux kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman at the Linuxcon conference in New Orleans this week. Kroah-Hartman maintains the stable Linux kernel tree, pushing out one or two new stable releases every week. There are a […]

Oracle reported its first quarter fiscal 2014 earnings late Wednesday, showing continued traction for its engineered systems hardware business. For the quarter, revenue was reported at $8.4 billion, which is a 2 percent year-over-year gain. Net income rose by 8 percent, coming in at $2.2 billion for the quarter. Among the revenue highlights is the […]

Security for Mozilla and Blackberry is set to get boost thanks to a little Peach Fuzzing. Peach is an open source Fuzzer project that is now set to benefit from the joint efforts of Mozilla and Blackberry. Fuzzing is a well known security technique in which fault code is injected into a program to see […]

Oracle is advancing the state of mobile Java with the new Java ME 3.3 release. The Java ME 3.3 release is part of Oracle’s evolution of its mobile Java platform that it re-ignited with the Java ME 3.2 release in late 2012. With Java ME 3.3, Oracle is now adding support for additional mobile architectures, […]

The demand for cloud and virtualization technology continues to grow and VMware is growing right along with it. That growth is built on continued momentum for VMware’s virtualization technology and its limited embrace of OpenStack. VMware reported its second quarter fiscal 2013 results late Tuesday, showing continued momentum for its Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) […]

The Apache Software Foundation is out with a major new milestone release of the open source OpenOffice suite. The new OpenOffice 4 release marks a major new stage in the evolution of the open source project at Apache. “This is a big update, a release nearly a year in the making,” Rob Weir, Apache OpenOffice […]

Ubuntu Linux vendor Canonical is taking a novel approach to getting a new type of superphone to market. Instead of bankrolling production on its own, Canonical is reaching out to its community via crowdfunding site Indiegogo, to raise $32 million in order to build 40,000 Ubuntu Edge devices. The campaign will last 30-days and backers […]

On July 19th, 2010, the CTO of NASA joined with Rackspace to announce a new effort, known as OpenStack. Three years later, OpenStack is much more than just Rackspace and NASA. Today OpenStack is supported by 231 member companies, including some of the biggest names in technology with HP, IBM, Dell, Cisco, Intel, AT&T and […]

IBM reported its second quarter fiscal 2013 earnings on Wednesday night, with numbers that aren’t particularly impressive. Yet there is a light at the end of the tunnel for IBM and it’s likely in the cloud. For the quarter, IBM reported revenue of $24.9 billion, which is a 3 percent year-over-year decline. Net Income was […]