Jason Brooks

Just before Christmas, Red Hat released the latest beta version of its Red Hat Linux distribution, code-named Phoebe. Phoebe comes packed with all the bleeding-edge packages youd ever want, including a release candidate version of KDE 3.1 and the latest beta version of GNOME 2, as well as a release of Mozilla with support for […]

The content management services we evaluate this week (see story, Content Services) offer companies a simpler and less costly route to publishing materials on the Web than software systems. However, these virtues come in part at the expense of some of the flexibility that more expensive, self-hosted solutions can deliver. Open-source CMSes (content management systems)—such […]

Maybe the browser wars arent over, after all. Last June, Netscape Communications Corp.s expedition into the land of open source bore fruit in the form of Mozilla 1.0, a Web browser that arguably unseated Microsoft Corp.s Internet Explorer—certainly not in popularity but in overall excellence. At last weeks Macworld Expo, however, Apple Computer Inc. launched […]

High-speed wireless data services, and the clients outfitted to consume them, are subject to a sort of networklike interdependence. The value and success of each depends on the success of the other. Complicating matters further is that we have multiple vendors building different types of clients to operate on different types of networks built out […]

Last week we talked about how Sun got its temporary injunction forcing Microsoft to ship an up-to-date Java virtual machine with Windows, and how, in my opinion, having our courts make product distribution decisions for the software industry was a bad idea. Many of you were kind enough to respond to my call for comments, […]

As much as Linux is pitted against Windows in the popular imagination, Linux has enjoyed perhaps more success supplanting Unix in the enterprise. The SCO Groups SCO Linux 4 (brand-new, despite its enumeration) can provide companies with an effective path to such migrations, particularly at sites that are running SCOs UnixWare. Although SCO traces its […]

U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz handed Sun a win, Microsoft a setback, and all of us something new (or old) to talk about when he recently granted Sun the preliminary injunction it had sought in its private antitrust lawsuit against everyones favorite Redmond-based computer monopolist. The specific terms of the order have not yet […]

In my last eLAB, I talked about Microsoft and about what chance there was that wed be seeing our favorite monopolist build server software for Linux some time in the next few years. That column drew a good deal of e-mail, and with the busy holidays fast approaching, this seemed like an excellent time for […]

Perhaps desirous of the sort of publicity jolt that IDC enjoyed/suffered when the analyst firm released its Microsoft-funded account of how Windows is cheaper than Linux, the Meta Group last week issued a controversial report of its own. In the report, Meta forecasted a move by Microsoft to support Linux in its Web, groupware and […]

Ximian Inc.s efforts to carve a space for Linux and Unix on the corporate desktop are anchored by Evolution, the companys open-source mail and personal information management application. eWeek Labs tested Evolution 1.2, and we were impressed with the interface and stability improvements in Evolution since we reviewed the program in its initial release last […]