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Novell SUSE Manager 1.2 Taps Red Hat Technology to Rein In Enterprise Linux
Novell’s SUSE Manager 1.2 provides users of the company’s line of enterprise-oriented, Linux-based operating systems with a server management tool built from the ground up with Linux in mind. SUSE Manager, which began shipping in March, is based on Spacewalk 1.3, an open-source project born out of Red Hat’s own server management product, Satellite, the…
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Natty Narwhal Time
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Adventures with Amazon EC2
This week we re-launched labs.eweek.com to serve as a home base eWEEK Labs team, and as a place to test out some of the products and services we cover in more “real world” setting than what we get within the confines of our San Francisco lab. To that end, we’ve set up shop in the…
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Mozilla Firefox 4 Boasts Performance and Usability Enhancements
As a speedy, modern, cross-platform Web browser, Firefox 4 is well worth evaluating for any organization, particularly those with a heterogeneous mix of client operating systems. On this multiplatform front, however, organizations should also keep an eye on Google’s Chrome, which tends to match Firefox in features and performance, and offers Group Policy-based management support…
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Amazon Web Services Complement BitNami`s Cloud-Hosting Capabilities
BitNami Cloud Hosting service combines its catalog of integrated open-source Web-application stacks with Amazon Web Services features. Read my full review at eweek.com.
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Copycats, Ideas and Execution
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…
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Linux Distro Releases I’m Watching This Year
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…
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Elevating the Status of Task Management
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.
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Debian 6 Offers Updated Applications, Few Rough Spots
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.
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SpotCloud Explores the Cloud’s Utility Computing Future
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.
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