Sean Michael Kerner

The OpenOffice.org suite of open source applications is now at a fork in the road. One path follows Oracle, the current owner of the OpenOffice.org trademarks and the leader of the mainline of the application development. A new path starting today is being split off by a community of developers organized under a group called […]

What’s in a name? For the open source CodePlex Foundation, which shared a name with Microsoft’s CodePlex project hosting site, its name was a potential source of confusion. The CodePlex Foundation is a Microsoft sponsored open source effort, though the goal is to have a broader base than just Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). As such the […]

Are you running Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser? You don’t necessarily have to download a whole new browser in order to get the benefits of a new browser anymore. Google this week officially graduated its Chrome Frame add-on to a stable release, providing users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer an engine for its Chrome browser. Google (NASDAQ: […]

For Linux vendor Red Hat, the road ahead is about looking up to the cloud as it ramps up business efforts to profit from new virtualization and service-oriented initiatives. Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) reported its second quarter fiscal 2011 financial results this week, posting solid revenue growth across its operating-system and middleware business units. For […]

The open source PostgreSQL project is out with a major new database release this week adding in support for features that expand scalability, security and performance. PostgreSQL 9.0 includes new features that developers have been asking about for years including replication and hot standby capabilities. The PostgreSQL 9.0 release continues the evolution of the 14 […]

Many large tech companies field complaints from investors because they possess a mountain of cash but don’t pay dividends to shareholders. Although details remain unclear, Cisco plans on changing that. Cisco has a plan to continue to grow its enterprise IT footprint and it’s one that will literally pay dividends to Cisco shareholders. At Cisco’s […]

Mozilla developers are pushing out Firefox 3.6.10 as a stability update to last week’s 3.6.9 browser release. The Firefox 3.6.10 update comes during a busy week for browser vendors, with Google’s Chrome issuing an update and Microsoft debuting a public beta of Internet Explorer 9. According to Mozilla’s release notes for Firefox 3.6.10, the new […]

While there is a lot of talk about the cloud as a deployment model for enterprise IT, actually building a cloud infrastructure remains a daunting task. That’s where Novell is aiming to come in with its new Cloud Manager solution. According to Novell (NASDAQ: NOVL), Cloud Manager enables enterprises to transform their IT assets into […]

No small community project, Ubuntu has — for many users — become synonymous with Linux itself. A leading Canonical executive talks about managing its sprawling development process. Recent years have seen the Ubuntu Linux distribution, led by Canonical, experiencing rapid growth in both users and features. With the upcoming Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat release, set […]

The race to accelerate browser features continues as Mozilla developers race towards the finish line to get the finished version of the Firefox 4 Web browser out the door. The first Firefox 4 beta was released in early July of this year and the final release is due by the end of the year. Along […]