Jason Brooks

Lately, I’ve had Mac on the brain—a state that’s stemmed in parts from P. J. Connolly’s coverage of Microsoft’s Office 2011 for the Mac, from Apple’s recent “Back to the Mac” event at its Cupertino headquarters, and from Apple’s disclosure that the increasingly consumer-oriented company plans to drop its most enterprise-oriented product, the XServe. In […]

Lotus Symphony 3.0 Vies to Eclipse OpenOffice.org as Microsoft Office Challenger by Jason Brooks Symphony 3.0 Loves Sidebars Symphony makes broad use of sidebars in its interface elements, to good effect. Here, the application’s sidebar-docked DataPilot feature is easier to tweak than the equivalent feature in OpenOffice.org (see next slide). The OpenOffice.org DataPilot In OpenOffice.org, […]

Fedora 14, the latest release of Red Hat’s fast-moving, community-supported Linux distribution, hit the Internet earlier this month bearing its typical crop of updated open-source software applications, with a particular focus on updated developer tools, such as the latest versions of the Eclipse and Netbeans Integrated Development Environments. Read my full review at eweek.com.

IBM’s Eclipse-flavored spin of the OpenOffice.org productivity suite undergoes a major update under the covers, moving up from the 1.x version on which it was originally based to sync up with version 3.x of the open-source project. Read my full review at eweek.com.

Egnyte ELC Extends Cloud Storage with VMware, Google Docs and FTP by Jason Brooks Egnyte VM I kicked off my tests of the ELC by pointing an ESXi 4.1 host running in our lab at an OVF template URL provided by Egnyte. Virtual Console With the ELC instance deployed on ESXi, I could access the […]

Ubuntu 10.10 Cozies Up to Android, iPhone and the Cloud by Jason Brooks ‘Unity’ Netbook Interface Ubuntu 10.10 sports a new interface for its netbook-oriented edition, with a focus on making the most of displays with vertically challenged resolutions. Netbook Edition of Evolution Ubuntu’s default e-mail application, Evolution, now comes in a slimmer edition for […]

It’s almost time to get serious about IPv6, sportsfans, whether you like it or not. Are you ready? I’m not, but it’s not my fault. Although numerous ways have been implemented to stretch the limited address space of IPv4 – the “classic” dotted decimal that defined the gold rush days of the Internet – recent […]

From an IT columnist perspective, Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems is a gift that keeps on giving. As the enterprise software giant works its way through digesting Sun’s many hardware platforms, software products, intellectual property holdings, and open source communities, there’s no shortage of fresh topics to cover. Last week, another such topic presented itself, […]

Egnyte’s hybrid cloud/local storage service is worth evaluating for organizations looking to cash in on the benefits of cloud-based storage without surrendering on-premises support. Read my full review at eweek.com.

Ubuntu 10.10, code-named Maverick Meerkat, brings a number of software updates and an overhauled user interface for its netbook edition. Read my full review at eweek.com.