Jason Brooks

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/v/cQ3VuITxKig] Right now I’m working on a review of Apprenda’s .NET PaaS. I’m struck by how much less convenient dependency-installation always is w/ the Microsoft stack, compared to Linux. I wonder how CoApp is faring these days…

This morning, HP shared, in vague terms, its plans for the webOS mobile platform that the company picked up (before dropping, and then sort of picking up again) in its 2010 acquisition of Palm, Inc. At this point, there isn’t a whole lot to say about the announcement (not that that’ll stop us in the […]

Last month, open-source data integration tool Talend Open Studio reached its version 5.0 milestone, packing a set of new and updated components for accessing and manipulating data stored in a broad range of formats, applications and repositories. What’s more, Talend has expanded its Open Studio brand to include data quality, master data management and enterprise […]

Yesterday, Google announced that the 2012 edition of its annual two-day developer conference, Google I/O, is now set to span three days. At this year’s Google I/O, the company assigned its two morning keynote presentations to Android and to ChromeOS, leading CNet’s Stephen Shankland to jest (on Google+, naturally) that Google ought to set aside […]

It’s been a couple of years since I reviewed Talend Open Studio, and with a major new point release from Talend in the works, now seemed like a good time to take another look at the open source data integration tool–and perhaps scratch a minor new data integration itch of my own. As loyal eWEEK […]

Quite a few years back, I wrote a column titled “At Long Last, Lindows” about much-hyped arrival of the consumer-targeted spin of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system on Walmart computers. This was in the early 2000’s, when development of Microsoft’s Windows was gummed up by a series of security snags, and an eventual “Year of […]

While many of the products and services that make up the x86 virtualization space are shot through with open-source components, these freely licensed and openly developed elements tend to serve as low-level building blocks-providers of storage, networking or compute resources in larger proprietary systems. Over the past few years, one of the starkest examples of […]

Last week I spoke with Eric Lundquist about Google’s recent Google+ feature additions on the CIO Insight show.

Late last month, Google’s young social networking effort, Google Plus, took another step toward maturity when the search giant added support for Google Apps domains on the service. For its first few months of life, users with email and application hosting through Google were barred from using these accounts with Google Plus–a real challenge for […]

With its ConVirt Enterprise 3, Convirture helps IT organizations put to work the virtualization capabilities present in all modern Linux-based server operating systems. The product, which I reviewed in its version 2 form last year, plays a role similar to what VMware’s vCenter plays for its ESX hypervisor hosts, but at a lower cost. New […]