Jason Brooks

It’s almost time to get serious about IPv6, sportsfans, whether you like it or not. Are you ready? I’m not, but it’s not my fault. Although numerous ways have been implemented to stretch the limited address space of IPv4 – the “classic” dotted decimal that defined the gold rush days of the Internet – recent […]

From an IT columnist perspective, Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems is a gift that keeps on giving. As the enterprise software giant works its way through digesting Sun’s many hardware platforms, software products, intellectual property holdings, and open source communities, there’s no shortage of fresh topics to cover. Last week, another such topic presented itself, […]

Egnyte’s hybrid cloud/local storage service is worth evaluating for organizations looking to cash in on the benefits of cloud-based storage without surrendering on-premises support. Read my full review at eweek.com.

Ubuntu 10.10, code-named Maverick Meerkat, brings a number of software updates and an overhauled user interface for its netbook edition. Read my full review at eweek.com.

The recent wave of vertical integration among enterprise IT vendors appears headed for another crest: There are reports in The Wall Street Journal and elsewhere that Novell is preparing to split itself in two, selling its SUSE Linux operations to a strategic buyer and the balance of its properties to a private equity investor. The […]

Zendesk is a hosted customer help desk service that’s easy to deploy while remaining quite amenable to customization. The service supports multiple methods of providing support, multiple channels through which customers can access that support and multiple routes through which an organization can access and interact with the underlying data. Read my full review at […]

Highlights from Linuxcon 2010 by Jason Brooks Open Compliance Program Linuxcon saw the debut of the Linux Foundation’s Open Compliance Program, which is aimed at smoothing open-source license compliance with tools, training, license reporting standards, consulting and self-assessment checklists. Oracle Loves Linux Oracle Senior Vice President of Linux and Virtualization Engineering Wim Coekaerts gave a […]

Google announced Aug. 4 its intention of killing offits Wave project before the end of this year, citing poor user uptake. Out in the twitterverse (or at least the bit of it that I follow), the move has been met with broad approval, even rejoicing — which I don’t quite understand. If you don’t like […]

BonitaSoft’s Bonita Open Solution 5.2 is comprised of an Eclipse-based studio application for designing processes, a form builder for creating Web-based interfaces for the processes and an execution engine for carrying out the processes. Read my full review at eweek.com.

Over the past year or so, there’s been a lot of discussion in open source software circles around so-called open core software business models, in which the “core” of a product is freely available under an open source license, typically with a “community edition” label, while some amount of features are withheld from the free […]

Review: eWEEK Labs encountered a few snags testing SLES 11 with SUSE Linux Enterprise 11’s Service Pack 1, especially involving KVM and Hyper-V, but Novell is doing a good job of maintaining SLES as a leading enterprise operating system that should be evaluated by any organization that employs virtualization. Read my full review at eweek.com.

Red Hat’s Fedora 13 open-source software can serve in a full gamut of Linux roles, as long as users are prepared to upgrade their systems about once a year. Read my full review at eweek.com.