Sean Michael Kerner

How young is “too young” to found a tech company? ActiveState acquisition of cloud computing startup Phenor sheds new light on this question. Sean Michael Kerner reports. Tools vendor ActiveState is acquiring cloud startup Phenora which develops a Perl cloud platform. The Phenora platform will complement ActiveState’s Stackato Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) effort which was announced in […]

The business of IT isn’t about delivering technology for technology’s sake, but rather about improving business productivity and performance. The responsibility for managing IT assets inside of an enterprise often falls on the shoulders of the CIO. The CIO is also tasked with measuring and reporting on the value that IT is delivering. At networking […]

The market for tech IPOs is hot again. The latest vendor to try its hand at the IPO market is telecommunications and networking vendor Avaya. Avaya filed a Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday for an IPO that is set to raise $1 billion. Avaya’s IPO is for 20 […]

Technology innovation isn’t always just about the code. The people and processes behind code development are critical to technology innovation. IBM’s Rational division this week launched an updated product offering that helps enable the collaboration of stakeholders in the software development process. The new Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) release is an application lifecycle management (ALM) […]

The LibreOffice open source office project issued a new release today, further demonstrating the viability of the OpenOffice.org fork. LibreOffice 3.4.0 is the second major release of LibreOffice since the project split from the Oracle in September of 2010. LibreOffice 3.3 debutedin January. Novell Distinguished Engineer and LibreOffice contributor Michael Meeks noted that LibreOffice 3.4.0 […]

How well is your IT organization performing? That’s not an easy question to answer and it requires a degree of detail, analytics and reporting that not all organizations have at their fingertips. HP this week is launching a new tool with the HP IT Executive Scorecard to help meet that need. The scorecard is part […]

There is never any shortage of speculation about what Apple is set to announce at any given point in time. The rumors and the speculation tends to reach a feverish pitch around the time of Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), set to run next week in San Franciso. Instead of sitting on the sidelines while […]

VoIP server provider Skype was hit with a major outage this week. Skype first acknowledged that it was having trouble on Thursday, via a note on the Skype website indicating that a small number of users may be having problems signing into the service. At the time, Skype noted that the flaw primarily affected Skype […]

Maintaining open source license compliance in an enterprise development and production environment can sometimes be a complex task. Applications can pull from multiple open source projects, each with their own licensing requirements and obligations. That’s where the Open Logic Exchange (OLEX) comes into play with a hosted Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution to the challenge of open […]

Fedora Linux 15 is now available, providing users on the desktop with a full GNOME 3 experience including the GNOME Shell user interface. Fedora 15, codenamed ‘Lovelock’ also introduces new security, spin, networking and virtualization features to the community Linux project, sponsored by Red Hat. “GNOME Shell is a big change and I’d be doing […]

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has issued a major report detailing its lessons learned and best practices for military software use of open technologies. The 68-page report has the goal of helping the U.S. government to implement what they refer to as open technology development (OTD) for government software projects. As part of OTD, […]

The rapid release cycle of the Linux kernel shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon. Linux founder Linus Torvalds this week released the new Linux 2.6.39 kernel, barely three months after the 2.6.38 kernelcame out. The 2.6.39 kernel is the third major kernel release so far in 2011. The 2.6.38 kernel release cycle included […]