Sean Michael Kerner

The future of the stand-alone operating system is not particularly bright. At least, that's according to Nat Friedman, chief technology and strategy

TORONTO -- Open source advocates have long pointed to Asterisk's ascendancy as one of the movement's great success stories. But for the founder of the

Networking gear and server equipment are two distinct types of hardware, right? Not anymore. Networking goliath Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is now opening its

Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) said it will offer a second interim update of HP-UX 11i v3, the company’s Unix operating system. HP said the latest

Networking giant Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) is giving its four-year-old self-defending network initiative a major refresh this week at the big RSA security

It's a good time to be an open source startup looking for financing. According to 451 Group analyst Matthew Aslett, open source vendors were able to raise

In the beginning, there was Linus Torvalds, a single developer who put together the original Linux kernel. Fast forward to 2008 and Torvalds is no longer

To date, Red Hat has been one of the most financially successful Open Source vendors on Earth. The goal now though is to grow even more to hit a new

The systems management space has been dominated by proprietary vendors like IBM Tivoli and HP OpenView for years, though in recent years open source

So how is Oracle doing with its Oracle Unbreakable Linux? Pretty well. According to Monica Kumar, senior director Linux and open source product marketing

If you thought that most open source developers work for open source companies, you might well be wrong. According to a survey from open source services

Bowing to stiff resistance from U.S. regulators, Bain Capital has reversed course in its $2.2 billion bid to buy networking giant 3Com. The move comes