Sean Michael Kerner

Open source business intelligence vendor Jaspersoft is out today with a new release of its namesake platform, adding new features and a new enterprise-specific edition. Jaspersoft CEO Brian Gentile told InternetNews.com that there are more than 25 feature enhancements in Jaspersoft 3.7, such as expanded in-memory analysis capabilities, including new methods of multidimensional data analysis. […]

After spending $350 million and two years of effort, Yahoo officially announced yesterday that it was selling its open source Zimbra e-mail collaboration unit to VMware. So why the change of heart? In conversation with InternetNews.com, top executives from Zimbra commented on their time at Yahoo and why a parting became necessary. While having an […]

Modern telecommunications networks globally are responsible for the consumption of some 300 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year, according to Alcatel-Lucent. Reducing the carbon footprint of telecom networks is the goal of Alcatel-Lucent’s (NYSE:ALU) new Green Touch effort which includes a consortium of academic, industry and government partners. The Green Touch effort is […]

Open source has dramatically reshaped the software development landscape. Yet is it enough to help propel the Web itself forward for the next decade? That’s what Mozilla believes. After having been synonymous with open source for over a decade, thanks to its efforts behind the popular Firefox Web browser, Mozilla is now creating a new […]

Remember the Y2K bug? Ten years after the original scare leading up to the year 2000, IT systems are once again facing problems due to the changing of the calendar year. Now, the issues are stemming from the rollover to 2010 — or Y2K10, as it’s being termed. There are reports out of Germany that […]

For some enterprise Java users, Java EE is not the right solution for their middleware server — Apache Tomcat is. Tomcat is a widely deployed open source Java JSP and servlet container that has recently gained commercial support by way of several vendors. One of the commercial implementations of Tomcat comes from software vendor MuleSoft […]

Memcached, the open source distributed memory-based object caching system that enables Web 2.0 application to scale in order to meet the needs of highly traffic production usage, is headed to the cloud thanks to commercial IT services vendor Gear6. Gear6 launched back in April with the general availability of a commercial-enhanced memcached distribution. Gear6 isn’t […]

Novell’s business spans a number of IT areas, including Linux, groupware, security, business services management and virtualization products. Today, the company unveiled a strategy that helps to tie together a number of these units into an intelligent workload management solution for enterprises. The idea is to quip enterprises with the combined tools set necessary for […]

It has been a tough year for a lot of vendors in the IT space and for Novell (NASDAQ: NOVL), it’s been no exception. But even as it posts a widening quarterly loss, the company’s executives aren’t easing up on the pace going into 2010. Instead, they described plans to expand Novell’s Linux business as […]

Free, community-driven versions of Linux don’t often benefit from commercial enterprise support efforts. For CentOS, that’s now about to change. The clone of Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) Enterprise Linux is now being commercially supported by services vendor OpenLogic. OpenLogic’s aim is to fill a need for Linux users. Despite being built on RHEL’s publicly available […]

Virtualization has been a big push this year for Linux vendor Red Hat (NYSE: RHT). It’s also a big area of focus for the Red Hat-sponsored Fedora Linux 12 release, which is due out next week. The Fedora Linux distribution has been including virtualization technologies beginning with the Fedora Core 5 release in 2006 and […]

Microsoft and Novell entered into a landmark Linux to Windows interoperability, patent and sales deal in 2006 and today, three years later, the partnership is still going strong as it begins its next phase. The two partners now say they have more than 400 joint customers and are expanding their efforts around improving Windows to […]