Jason Brooks

Given enough ISV support, Wine needn’t be be a poor cross-platform solution for running Windows apps on Linux. Read my full review at eweek.com.

Jitterbit is a data integration suite that organizations can use to link up disparate applications and data sources that may not be capable of communicating with each other on their own. In eWEEK Labs’ tests, Jitterbit 3.0 was easy to set up and use, and allows for a certain amount of self-service among data-savvy users. […]

The open-source Wine project is less a solution and more a workaround when it comes to the issue of running Windows applications on Linux. Read my full review at eweek.com.

When eWEEK Labs looked back at 2009 to come up with lists of the stand-out products and technology goofs of the year, I was struck by what a relatively quiet year this has been. In fact, most of the product activity that jumped to mind from this year served mainly to set the stage for […]

Last month, I wrote a column about how our industry’s tightening embrace of virtualization and Web-based applications is making it easier than ever to choose an alternative operating system, such as Linux, to run your client machines. However, if the vendors and projects pushing Linux and its market share-challenged ilk are really serious about gaining […]

LABS GALLERY: Office 2010 Beta Provides New Ways to Slice and Dice Data, Build Apps by Jason Brooks Cancel The Office team has put its splash screens to good use in the 2010 edition of Office, adding a Cancel button for bailing out of unintentionally opened Office applications before they finish loading—nice for when you’ve […]

At its Professional Developers Conference last year, Microsoft gave the world its first look at Windows 7 in the form of a pre-beta release that struck me as practically ready for prime time-a good sign for a Windows release tasked with restoring user confidence following the little-loved Windows Vista. At this year’s show, the company […]

My review of OpenSUSE 11.2 rounds off another semiannual check-in with what I regard as the most important trio of desktop-oriented Linux operating systems: the aforementioned OpenSUSE, Ubuntu and Fedora. If you’re given to a philosophical mindset, you may have paused while flipping through these pages to ask yourself: “If an OS is released (in […]

LABS GALLERY: OpenSUSE 11.2 Effectively Integrates New Features, Installation Options Are Confusing by Jason Brooks Block-Level Encryption OpenSUSE now offers an option for full volume encryption (with the exception of the boot partition). This brings the distribution even with Fedora and Ubuntu, both of which have offered this sort of encryption in their past few […]

Novell’s OpenSUSE 11.2, the latest release in a long and popular line of Linux-based operating systems, hit Internet mirrors everywhere this week, packed with the latest and greatest of what the open-source software world has to offer. The distribution, which is targeted primarily at desktop users, ships with the latest versions of the Firefox Web […]

Twenty-five years ago, this publication began chronicling the ecosystem that had sprung up around IBM’s PC. It was a platform that proved remarkably fertile, owing not only to the “business-approved” blessing that came with the IBM brand but also to the platform’s open architecture. PC Week’s birth year-1984-was a busy one for technology, one that […]