Jason Brooks

In the year to come, we expect to see Linux maintain its torrid development pace, with major new enterprise releases from Red Hat, which is set to ship RHEL 5 in January, and Novell, which will also ship an update to its Open Enterprise Server early next year. Whats more, we expect to see one […]

Yesterday, a blog post I read from rPath CEO Billy Marshall piqued my interest. Marshall dismissed the idea that open source software firms can be successful on the strength of their service and support offerings–a point of view that runs counter to conventional wisdom that when you’re selling something that’s free, you’d better surround it […]

In the year to come, we expect to see Linux maintain its torrid development pace, with major new enterprise releases from Red Hat, which is set to ship RHEL 5 in January, and Novell, which will also ship an update to its Open Enterprise Server early next year. Whats more, we expect to see one […]

Having emerged, mostly, from the depths of Windows Vista testing, Ive turned my attention to Edgy Eft, the latest version of Canonicals Ubuntu Linux. As its name is meant to imply, this most recent Ubuntu release is supposed to ride the bleeding edge. So far, however, Ive found it fairly tame. Edgy Eft ships with […]

Over the past several weeks, weve seen a series of large IT vendors step forward to embrace Linux and open-source software. Oracle rebranded a version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Microsoft and Novell signed a Linux interoperability pact, and Sun put Java under the GNU General Public License Version 2.0. As we said in this […]

Finally, Vista is here. Was it worth the wait? Well, it all depends on how you look at it. eWEEK Labs has been testing Microsoft Windows Vista builds for more than three years, and our evaluation of the final code shows that the new operating system is a significant improvement over its predecessor, Windows XP-chiefly […]

I just read the Open Letter to the Community from Novell’s probably rather flummoxed CEO Ron Hovsepian, and if you’re someone who’s been wringing your hands over the collaboration and patents pact that Novell and Microsoft announced recently, you should read it too.I sort of blew off the deal when I first read about it […]

Many of the improvements Microsoft made to Windows Server between its 2003 and 2003 R2 releases dont apply to the single-server Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 R2, but users will nonetheless benefit from SBS new Windows Software Update Services and Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 SP2 functionality. Windows SBS 2003 R2 offers companies of 75 or […]

With its business server, collax takes an appliance approach to delivering key network services to small and midsize businesses. Collax Business Server 3.0.18, which became available in October, allowed eWeek Labs to fairly easily set up a small network environment that was suitable for serving both Windows and Linux clients with core services, including authentication, […]

Microsoft and novell made big IT news on Nov. 2 by announcing a historic burying of the hatchet, the likes of which we havent seen since Sun and Microsoft promised to work together on big interoperability stuff. The Sun-Micro-soft agreement was two years ago, and Im not sure what, if anything, came out of it. […]

During our recent Vista tests, we came across a bug in the Vista installer that prevented us from installing the OS onto VMware using an iso image of Vista. The OS booted normally for us from an iso image, but then complained about not having a driver for the virtual DVD/CD drive from which we’d […]

The rumor that Oracle is planning to launch its own Linux distribution has surfaced again, this time in the form of analyst speculation that appeared to prompt a dip in Red Hats share price. Considering that Oracles OpenWorld show was Oct. 22-26, a move by Larry Ellison and Co. to confirm this tough-to-sink rumor already […]