Sean Michael Kerner

Ubuntu founder Mark ShuttleworthSource: Canonical Microsoft might be betting big on Windows 7, the next version of its flagship operating system, but to Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth, the upcoming release is really an opportunity for Linux to shine. Granted, Linux on the desktop has not made as much of a dent against Windows as it […]

With just hours to go before the widespread Conficker worm is expected to activate, researchers say they’re relying on new efforts to help mitigate the risk and detect the worm itself. And not a moment too soon. The worm, which is also known as Downadup, Kido, Confick and the April Fool’s Day worm, is creating […]

Novell is making it easier for a Microsoft .NET developer to deploy their applications on Linux, whether they develop their applications on Windows or on Linux, with the release of Mono 2.4. Mono is a .NET on Linux implementation and the new version, released Monday, promises greater compatibility and better performance for deploying .NET apps […]

In the beginning (1995), Java was created by Sun Microsystems. Then Sun saw that Java was bigger than just Sun (NASDAQ: JAVA) and opened up the process of building Java with the Java Community Process (JCP) in 1998. Yet now with rumors of IBM acquiring Sun swirling, the Java community could undergo its most significant […]

Just because Microsoft Windows itself is a proprietary, closed-source operating system doesn’t mean that the software giant isn’t open to open source. Increasingly, it’s just the opposite. As the economic downturn drags on, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is feeling more pressure to figure out ways that Windows can play nicely with open source applications, which are […]

Novell today is rolling out the newest edition of its flagship enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) 11. The new releases are the first major updates since the SLES and SLED 10 releases in July of 2006. Novell’s new Linux includes a host of feature improvements including […]

For the last two and a half years, Oracle has been selling its own supported version of Linux based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). But the company claims it’s not a fork. That’s an important distinction for Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL), which makes billions from its products running on Linux, and is a very active […]

Data and personal content exists in many different silos across the Internet, amd getting them all into a single interface and sharing them is no easy task. One potential solution to the problem is set to be demonstrated next week by open source software vendor Open-Xchange with an approach that uses semantic microformats as a […]

Scaling systems on a distributed basis to handle petabytes of information is no easy task, though it’s one that the open source Apache Hadoop project delivers for such big names as Facebook, Google and Yahoo. Now, the Hadoop framework for running applications across large clusters could see a boost — thanks to the first official […]

With technologies like Flash and PDF pervasive across the Web, Adobe has established itself as one of the leading forces in shaping Internet content, applications and development. But as open source continues to take root, how is the company responding? While Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) is not a full-fledged open source company today, the company argues […]