Jason Brooks

Maybe the browser wars arent over, after all. Last June, Netscapes 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 this weeks MacWorld Expo, however, Apple Computer Inc. launched a Web […]

Canonicals Ubuntu 6.06 LTS is an excellent Linux-based operating system—so excellent, in fact, that it not only earned eWEEK Labs Analysts Choice designation but has also become our clear favorite among Linux desktop distributions. This latest Ubuntu release, which became available in June, has won our ardor with a tight focus on desktop usability; an […]

Red Hats Fedora Core 5, which hit the Internet in late March, shines in the server and developer roles with which Linux has come to be identified. Also, for many scenarios, Fedora has matured enough to perform well as a mainstream corporate desktop. In tests, eWEEK Labs was impressed with the fast-moving Red Hat distributions […]

Toshiba Corp.s $599 Pocket PC e740 boasts integrated support for 802.11b wireless networking and a speedy new 400MHz Intel Corp. Xscale processor—without added cost or size, compared with similarly equipped Pocket PC rivals. Although the e740s new chip and built-in wireless functionality caught our attention, we were just as impressed with the devices dual expansion […]

As Mary Jo Foleys reporting reveals, theres renewed doubt as to whether Microsoft can manage to ship Vista—the companys long-delayed Windows client refresh—in time to make the product available for corporate customers before the start of 2007. I havent yet run the Vista build that Microsoft will release the week of May 22 at WinHEC […]

This years crop of entries in the Enterprise Collaboration & Messaging category ranged from groupware servers and spam filters to presentation and collaboration products—from both peer-to-peer and centralized camps. The ability to effect collaboration was extremely important to the judges in this category, as seen in the focus of the products that made it to […]

Virtualization and Linux can be a match made in heaven, which is why enterprise Linux heavyweights Red Hat and Novell are pushing so hard to make support for virtualization a highlight of their respective mainstream Linux operating systems. Also recognizing this potential—but pursuing a markedly different tack toward realizing it—is rPath, a company that offers […]

This week, Ive been performing extended tests of this summers major Solaris 10 update from Sun Microsystems—the first to include the much-heralded Zettabyte File System. Early in my testing, ZFS knack for turning raw disks into bendable, shapeable, all-purpose volumes came in handy. For example, after installing a bunch of packages from blastwave.org to my […]

Producing applications that run on multiple platforms has never been easy, which is why desktop-native applications have tended to target only one or two platforms at a time. In the past several years, developers have broadened their platform reach by writing to the Web browser, a trend that’s allowed for more platform diversity. It’s no […]

The corner of cloud computing known as platform as a service has been heating up over the past year, with new products and projects coming online that are aimed at abstracting away application deployment details and enabling developers to focus primarily on their code. Early on, most platform as a service (PaaS) options have favored […]

[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 […]