Sean Michael Kerner

There is a business behind the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system and according to its lead commercial sponsor Canonical, that business is good. Canonical is set to debut its latest Linux release Ubuntu 8.10 also known as the Intrepid Ibex on October 30th. The new release will include networking, virtualization and user management improvements. The […]

Red Hat is a leading technology vendor for its Linux platform and JBoss middleware lines of business. Though it has tremendous in-house technical expertise, Red Hat is actually going to a third party vendor for the technology needed to build the Web content management system for the new JBoss.org community website. In so doing, Red […]

Sun co-founder Andreas von Bechtolsheim is giving up his full-time job at the company to focus on a startup networking play. Bechtolsheim is now set to become the chief development officer and chairman of startup Arista Networks. In moving to Arista, Bechtolsheim isn’t joining a company he is unfamiliar with: He helped to found Arista […]

In tough economic times, it’s always a good idea to know what you’re worth — especially for a product potentially worth billions, even if it’s often given away for free. In a study that aims to take stock of the value of the Linux kernel and a typical Linux distribution, the Linux Foundation estimates the […]

Tough times for the financial services market doesn’t mean tough times for all of the software vendors that support them. Open source trading platform software developer Marketcetera, in particular, sees an increasing number of opportunities for its technology. Marketcetera is now rolling out new back office services for financial services users that leverage Marketcetera’s open […]

Mozilla, well known as the open source group behind the popular desktop Firefox Web browser, is now hoping to move to the mobile browsing realm with the Fennec browser. Under development and currently at its Alpha 1 release, Fennec isn’t Mozilla’s first kick at the can for a mobile Web browser, however. Instead, Fennec replaces […]

Who’s afraid of open source? According to the open source industry group FOSSBazaar, there are plenty of organizations that view using the software as risky. But the group maintains that concerns about open source stem from often poorly understood legal issues that could be overcome with some education. FOSSBazaar, an HP-led Linux Foundation working group, […]

The office suite, which provides word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications, has long been among the most heavily used applications on users’ desktops. For much of the Windows-centric world, that suite is Microsoft Office, but for open source users, more often than not, the choice is OpenOffice.org (OOo). Today, OOo is out with version 3.0, […]

Networking giant Cisco is gearing up to expand its Linux platform with a bunch of new hardware. But it won’t be a success without developers to build more applications for the platform, so a little romancing is in order. Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is asking developers to instead think “inside the box” to create applications that […]

The office suite, which provides word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications, has long been among the most heavily used applications on users’ desktops. For much of the Windows-centric world, that suite is Microsoft Office, but for open source users, more often than not, the choice is OpenOffice.org (OOo). Today, OOo is out with version 3.0, […]