Jason Brooks

It’s been a week of copycat allegations, with Google accusing Microsoft of cribbing Google search engine results by monitoring and acting on the browsing habits of Bing toolbar users. To my mind, it’s a fairly boring flareup, but one which, when combined with the Salesforce.com Chatter tests that my fellow labsman Cameron Sturdevant has been […]

Back around the turn of the millennium, I had the great fortune of watching the Windows XP, aka Whistler, development cycle unfold. I had so much fun tracking the procession of development releases topped by the shiny gold master copy of Windows XP, that I sought after, and found, an operating system to track that […]

Organizations with compute capacity to spare can sell it to buyers looking to the cloud to perform short-term compute tasks at lower costs. Read my full review at eweek.com.

This latest release, which is also known by the Toy Story-inspired name “Squeeze,” will play well in server deployments that draw on open-source components, which the Debian project has a knack for packaging up for easy installation over one of the project’s repository mirror sites. Read my full review at eweek.com.

Tasktop Pro 1.8 stitches together application-lifecycle-management systems with the Web-browsing, document, calendar and e-mail activities that form the context of a specific task. Read my full review at eweek.com.

Today at its Lotusphere 2011 event in Orlando, IBM announced tech preview of LotusLive Symphony, a Web-based office app duo to extend its Lotus Symphony productivity suite. I reviewed the desktop-bound edition of Symphony a few months back, and Andrew Garcia took on the LotusLive online collaboration service. It’s interesting to see IBM add a […]

Microsoft’s WebMatrix is a freely available development tool that lowers the barriers to creating Websites atop the company’s Windows operating system and IIS Web server tandem, both in terms of locating and installing needed components, and coding data-driven Websites. Predictably enough, WebMatrix fills out the Windows and Internet Information Services stack with Microsoft’s SQL Server […]

In 2007, I wrote a column titled, “It’s the directory, stupid,” in which I took the various corporate and community backers of Linux to task for failing to come up with an Active Directory equivalent for their chosen operating system platform. Since Active Directory arrived in Windows 2000, Microsoft’s directory offering has been a major […]

In our cover story in the January 3rd issue of eWEEK, Cameron Sturdevant took another crack at the topic of the consumerization of the enterprise, this time by drilling down on the integration issues involved in rolling out Twitter-style microblogging servicesor functionality in a business setting. The issue gets to the heart of the challenges […]

Convirture 2.0 Unlocks Virtualization Potential of Linux Operating Systems by Jason Brooks Management Console Convirt 2.0 Enterprise provides administrators with a straightforward Web interface for carrying out the configuration operations required for deploying virtual instances in production. Converting Red Hat VM The product didn’t recognize RHEL’s VM format, although I found a conversion script on […]