Sean Michael Kerner

The little smiley face :) and its cousins, known in most circles as Emoticons, turn 25 this year. Emoticons have become common place in many forms of

PC users have volumes of information saved on their computers, most of it disconnected and disparate save for a basic directory system. The answer to

The third Linux kernel release of 2007 is now out with memory management and wireless among its improvements. The 2.6.22 kernel release comes after seven

VMware is making its Lab Manager virtual lifecycle management software more accessible with the release today of version 2.5 If an enterprise wanted to

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) has always been about managing and connecting to content. Open source startup Alfresco is taking the ECM model a step

It's official. Microsoft is not in favor of the GPL version 3 and will not distribute software that is issued under that license. The new license was

The sixth and final alpha development release of the next generation Mozilla Firefox 3 browser is now out. But don't trust the release notes to tell you

At the beginning of the Linux revolution, Linux entered many enterprises through the back door with experienced users just managing it on their own. As

High availability clustering technology has long been the domain of expensive, proprietary systems. Sun Microsystems (Quote) may well be changing that;

After nearly 16 years of use, the GPL -- the cornerstone license of the Free Software Movement -- has officially been revised. GPL version 3 (GPLv3) was

The official final release of the GPL is is expected today and it's possible that over 5,500 projects could be migrating to it in very quickly. Software

I can still remember the day two years ago when one of my fellow editors at internetnews.com told me he heard that the GPL version 2 (define)was going to