Jason Brooks

Over at Microsoft Watch, our own Joe Wilcox has penned an interesting post about how popular Microsoft Office Student and Teacher Edition has become in comparison to Microsoft’s more costly business editions of Office. In particular, his last paragraph caught my eye: “OneNote could greatly diminish the value for business users looking for activational copies […]

» What will happen in IT in 2007? | Paul Murphy | ZDNet.com “By the end of the year the OpenSolaris community will be widely recognised as larger and more active than the Linux community…” If this is to happen, it’ll take a lot longer than one year. (tags: linux solaris)

The Ultimate Distro | Linux Journal This piece starts out rather promising, going into the first days of Linux distributions, but the history ends rather abruptly. (tags: linux)

The Open Source Desktop Myth > Microsoft Won. Get Over It. Forget about winning on the desktop, the author says. Open source developers should look toward new, less machine-bound, horizons. (tags: linux windows)

Research In Motion’s Record Year “For its fiscal third quarter, Waterloo (Ont.)-based RIM reported sales of $835 million, up 49% from the same period a year ago, and profits of $176 million, or 93 cents a share. That beats the year-ago quarter by 46%.” I guess NTP didn’t hit them too hard. (tags: rim wireless […]

Pirates crack Vista Activation Server | APC Magazine (tags: windows vista licensing) Has the Desktop Linux Bubble Burst? – OSNews.com A rather melodramatic title — my first thought was, “what bubble? — the author asks where are the next-gen GNOME and KDE to go up against Vista and OSX. From my vantage (a GNOME 2.16 […]

Outlook 2007: Linux and Open Source YAYEOS (Yet Another Year End Outlook Story) (tags: linux redhat novell xen vmware virtualization oracle)

I missed today’s Microsoft and Novell joint webinar, but I cruised over to Novell’s website to download the slide deck from the presentation. Perhaps not surprisingly, the slide deck was pretty short on content, but a couple of items caught my eye. For one thing, there’s a slide early on that lays out the sort […]

Debian/Ruby Extras – Position on RubyGems I’ve been messing around with Ruby, and also reviewing Ubuntu and OpenSUSE. The two projects are taking separate tacks regarding Ruby packaging. Debian, and therefore Ubuntu, sticks with its own packaging system, and doesn’t ship with Ruby’s rubygems… (tags: linux ubuntu debian ruby) Ubuntu How-To Nice-looking collection of post-install […]

Ian Murdock, the founder (and second syllable) of the Linux operating system Debian, is sounding off about his displeasure with software installation on Linux.For instance, he cites the install procedure for Sun’s Java Studio Creator. On Windows, you double click the exe. On Linux, make the install script executable, run it to extract an RPM, […]