Sean Michael Kerner

Though the final release of the open source GPL version 3 license is still likely several months away, software vendors are already ramping up their

The Linux Foundation is updating the Linux Standards Base (LSB) and making it easier for Linux vendors and application developers to ensure compliance.

Internet application testing vendor RadView plans to migrate its flagship product to an open source model using the General Public License (GPL),

Tagging has taken off in the Web 2.0 world as a way to organize and find items of interest. And for the most part they've existed only in the browser view

Virtualization (define) isn't only about supporting a virtualized operating system. Storage and security are key support sectors in any enterprise IT

Oracle (Quote) is working hard to release the next version of Oracle Enterprise Linux, which is based on the recently released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Thanks to the Novell-sponsored open source Mono effort and its contributors, the idea of cross-platform ASP.NET development isn't a dream. It's a reality.

IBM (Quote) is heating up the open source middleware space with a new migration tool for moving from Red Hat's JBoss Application Server to Apache

New language in the third draft of the GNU General Public License (define), GPL v3, has the potential to reach beyond big Linux vendors with its proposed

Mozilla developers are keeping up the pace on the development of their next-generation Firefox 3.0 browser with the Alpha 3 release, adding more

The ERP business is one that has long been dominated by giant enterprise software vendors like SAP and Oracle's PeopleSoft. Microsoft has entered the

Reporter's Notebook: AJAX (define) as an industry term has only existed for two years, though the underlying technologies have been around a lot longer.