Sean Michael Kerner

UPDATED: The Web browser is the most basic common unit of the Internet experience for much of the global community. It's also one of the most attacked.

Apparently patents do matter when it comes to open source software adoption. In a teleconference preview ahead of next week's LinuxWorld conference,

Microsoft wants more open source software to run on Windows. Microsoft also wants its own Open Source Initiative (OSI) approved license. Perhaps they

One of the pillars of business intelligence capabilities is something called ETL (define), an acronym standing for extract, transform and load. ETL can

The IEEE 802.3 Higher Speed Study Group (HSSG) has decided that the next speed for Ethernet will be both 40GbE and 100GbE. Originally the HHSG had planned

Multiple cores are the norm now for chip-makers, though application developers don't always develop in ways that take advantage of more than one processor

What is the impact on Linux distribution usage of the Novell patent deal with Microsoft? According to open source enterprise content management (ECM)

John Newton, CTO and chairman of open source enterprise content management (ECM) vendor Alfresco, is certainly no stranger to the industry. Newton was one

It crawls the Web without malice seeking out every possible bit of content. It's name is Googlebot, and sometimes it gets to see things on the Web that

Intel (Quote) is pushing its mobile Linux development efforts with Moblin.org, a new resource site for open source projects focused on the development of

Oracle's Linux offerings are gaining new support today. The support comes in the form of a string of certifications from Symantec's (Quote) Veritas data

With all product lines, there needs to be entry-level, high- and mid-level offerings. Juniper Networks (Quote) already has introduced new entry-level and