Jason Brooks

The recent wave of vertical integration among enterprise IT vendors appears headed for another crest: There are reports in The Wall Street Journal and elsewhere that Novell is preparing to split itself in two, selling its SUSE Linux operations to a strategic buyer and the balance of its properties to a private equity investor. The […]

Zendesk is a hosted customer help desk service that’s easy to deploy while remaining quite amenable to customization. The service supports multiple methods of providing support, multiple channels through which customers can access that support and multiple routes through which an organization can access and interact with the underlying data. Read my full review at […]

Highlights from Linuxcon 2010 by Jason Brooks Open Compliance Program Linuxcon saw the debut of the Linux Foundation’s Open Compliance Program, which is aimed at smoothing open-source license compliance with tools, training, license reporting standards, consulting and self-assessment checklists. Oracle Loves Linux Oracle Senior Vice President of Linux and Virtualization Engineering Wim Coekaerts gave a […]

Google announced Aug. 4 its intention of killing offits Wave project before the end of this year, citing poor user uptake. Out in the twitterverse (or at least the bit of it that I follow), the move has been met with broad approval, even rejoicing — which I don’t quite understand. If you don’t like […]

BonitaSoft’s Bonita Open Solution 5.2 is comprised of an Eclipse-based studio application for designing processes, a form builder for creating Web-based interfaces for the processes and an execution engine for carrying out the processes. Read my full review at eweek.com.

Over the past year or so, there’s been a lot of discussion in open source software circles around so-called open core software business models, in which the “core” of a product is freely available under an open source license, typically with a “community edition” label, while some amount of features are withheld from the free […]

Review: eWEEK Labs encountered a few snags testing SLES 11 with SUSE Linux Enterprise 11’s Service Pack 1, especially involving KVM and Hyper-V, but Novell is doing a good job of maintaining SLES as a leading enterprise operating system that should be evaluated by any organization that employs virtualization. Read my full review at eweek.com.

Red Hat’s Fedora 13 open-source software can serve in a full gamut of Linux roles, as long as users are prepared to upgrade their systems about once a year. Read my full review at eweek.com.

One of the most compelling new features in both Excel 2010 and in SQL Server 2008 R2 is PowerPivot, a new tool that enables spreadsheet-savvy workers to take on larger amounts of data from within a spreadsheet-style interface. Read my full review at eweek.com.

Microsoft Office 2010 Rolls Out New Features, New Platforms by Jason Brooks Back Stage Area The biggest interface tweak in Office 2010 is probably the addition of a backstage area to replace what had been the File menu drop-down in earlier versions of Office. In each application in the suite, these backstage areas house “meta […]