Sean Michael Kerner

NEW YORK -- When the the third draft of the General Public License (define) comes out, look for language that addresses the recent Microsoft-Novell patent

NEW YORK -- Reporter's Notebook: Open source is more than just Linux. It's more than just infrastructure and it can save you money. These were some of the

While many Americans were focused on the sports spectacle known as the Super Bowl last Sunday, Linus Torvalds was focused on releasing a new Linux kernel.

A new open source advocacy group is about to launch with a focus on applications rather than open source standards, internetnews.com has learned. The new

Developers have no guarantees when they open source an application. In many cases, they don't know who will use it, nor do they know how things will

Call it Red Hat's (Quote) forward spin velocity regarding Linux management tools. With competition such as Oracle offering full Red Hat support on their

Microsoft (Quote) is very serious about network access control, so serious that it just announced a list of 100 partner companies whose products will

Linux on IBM mainframes is getting a vote of confidence from Oracle and research firm IDC. IBM (Quote) and Oracle (Quote) recently inked a deal that to

Building and maintaining packages for multiple Linux distributions has never been an easy task. But Novell wants to change that with a pair of releases it

Six weeks ago the OSDL (Open Source Development Labs) announced layoffs and the loss of its CEO. Today it announced a merger. The group has merged with

Oracle (Quote) is basing its Unbreakable Linux offering on Red Hat's Linux, but the database vendor is not content to rest on Red Hat's laurels when it

Reporter's Notebook: SCO's recent fourth-quarter earnings call started on a somewhat ominous note. SCO spokesman Blake Stowell warned that SCO would only