Sean Michael Kerner

Linux vendor Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) today announced the beta availability of its next virtualization platform — Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 2.2. The RHEV 2.2 release is the first public announcement that Red Hat has made about the virtualization platform since its initial public release in November 2009. The RHEV solution suite includes a standalone […]

The past twelve months have been good for Linux vendor Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) as the company grew revenues and income while expanding its product offerings in the cloud and virtualization space. But how did Red Hat grow while others staggered? During Red Hat’s fiscal 2010 earnings call on Wednesday, Red Hat’s CEO and CFO detailed […]

The new virtualization deal is potential a loss of VMware, and generally seen as a score for open source virtualization. As cloud computing deployments ramp up, so too does the competitive battle for the cloud infrastructure technology supporting those deployments. Linux vendor Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) said Tuesday that it would be supplying IBM with the […]

Social networking and voting site Digg is rewriting its underlying software infrastructure in an effort to improve performance and scalability. Part of that effort involves moving away from the MySQL database that has helped to power Digg since its creation. In MySQL’s place, Digg is going with an open source NoSQL non-relational database called Cassandra […]

While many IT jobs were lost or shelved during last year’s global economic recession, the downturn has had more mixed effects on the IT security industry. According to a new survey, IT security professionals’ salaries rose in 2009 and are looking promising for the coming year, even as overall hiring and security budgets remain tight. […]

Opera Software today released version 10.5 of its namesake Web browser for Windows, with a new JavaScript engine as well as a new graphics library intended to make browsing faster than its competition. But it’s got a lot of catching up to do before it can rival its competitors’ market share — a feat that’s […]

Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems initially left unclear the future of a number of open source technologies developed by Sun. One of those technologies is Sun’s OpenSolaris project, which is the open source effort through which the next generation of Solaris technologies are developed and tested. During Oracle’s (NASDAQ: ORCL) Sun strategy event at the […]

Novell (NYSE: NOVL) executives said this week that it’s seven-year-old Linux business has finally broken even — making good on promises made a year ago. But it hasn’t been an easy trek to begin making money off of Linux, and one factor may weigh against Novell’s Linux business going forward: The waning revenue from its […]

Cisco is ending its relationship with HP as a Cisco Certified Channel Partner in a move that will open the floodgates for full scale competition between the two firms. It’s hardly surprising after a year in which both Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) and HP (NYSE: HPQ) announced multiple competitive offerings that encroach on each other’s traditional […]

The concept of an office suite, with word processing, spreadsheet and presentation software, is one that is well understood by users, which is also why it’s often difficult to improve them. Users already expect their office suites to do certain things, making the job of office suite developers often one of fit and finish. That’s […]

The cloud isn’t just another word for basic application hosting on a single remote server. The cloud involves the notion of distributed assets that are highly available and scalable. It’s a technical paradigm that has inspired Linux vendor Red Hat to launch new open source projects to develop novel infrastructure and applications for the cloud. […]

Ever since the first KDE 4 release in 2008, the KDE open source desktop has been evolving to provide a different type of experience for Linux users With the KDE Software Compilation (SC) 4.4 release today, KDE’s desktop evolution continues with more than 1,400 new features and nearly 7,300 bugs fixed. “KDE SC 4.4 is […]