Since 1998, I’ve written hundreds of features, news stories, reviews, analysis, and opinion columns. Collected here is a selection of my work.

Features

• 10 Programming Languages That Could Shake Up IT (InfoWorld, 1/3/12)
• Linux at 20: New challenges, new opportunities (InfoWorld, 8/29/11)
• Analysis: Are Google’s best years behind it? (InfoWorld, 8/8/11)
• 10 Reasons Why the PC Is Here to Stay (InfoWorld, 7/6/10)
• From the Labs: IT’s Future Today (InfoWorld, 6/21/10)
• Open Source Innovation on the Cutting Edge (InfoWorld, 5/24/10)
• What to expect from HTML5 (InfoWorld, 3/8/10)
• Microsoft vs. Google: The empire strikes back (InfoWorld, 2/22/10)
• ARM takes on Intel for the new digital frontier (InfoWorld, 10/28/09)
• What’s Next for Netbooks? (InfoWorld, 5/11/09)
• Desktop Linux: Why It May Have Lost its Chance (InfoWorld, 4/27/09)
• Don’t Fear the Penguin: A Newbie’s Guide to Linux (PC World, 1/22/09)
• How eBay Built a Global Platform (MultiLingual, January 2009)
• 20 More IT Mistakes to Avoid (InfoWorld.com, 9/15/08)
• Making Desktop Linux Work for Business (InfoWorld.com, 7/1/08)
• 15 Turning Points in Tech History (InfoWorld.com, 6/9/08)
• Is the Browser Doomed? (InfoWorld.com, 5/12/08)
• Most Important Tech You Never Think About (PC World, 4/27/08)
• Tech’s all-time top 25 flops (InfoWorld.com, 1/21/08)
• Switching to Ubuntu Linux: A how-to guide (InfoWorld.com 10/22/07)
• 7 reasons why Your PC is slow (InfoWorld.com 9/17/07)
• How open source changed the software industry (InfoWorld.com, 8/6/07)
• How risky is open source? (InfoWorld.com, 5/21/07)
• Has Microsoft kept its Vista security promise? (InfoWorld, 3/26/07)
• Server virtualization: Under the hood (InfoWorld, 2/12/07)
• Open source demands new IT buying strategies (InfoWorld, 4/3/06)
• Plugging in to interactive voice apps (InfoWorld, 2/4/06)
• How Intel’s x86 conquered an industry (InfoWorld, 10/24/05) [PDF]
• Identity’s federated future (InfoWorld, 9/3/04) [PDF]
• Inside the new Novell (InfoWorld, 7/9/04) [PDF]
• Free wireless, everywhere (SFGate.com, 1/23/04)
• The great migration: Rocky road to J2EE and .Net (New Architect, 2/12/03)
• Offshoring: Navigating the global IT market (New Architect, 1/10/03)
• Building apps on open source databases (New Architect, 11/12/02)
• Apple takes aim at server market (New Architect, 8/7/02) [PDF]
• Database clustering, under the hood (New Architect, 3/12/02)
• Emerging standards in DRM (New Architect, 1/22/02)
• On a collision course with Moore’s Law (SFGate.com, 2/14/02)
• Chinese connection: Wiring the People’s Republic (SFGate.com, 12/20/01)
• On the trail of killer bacteria (SFGate.com, 11/05/01)
• Ximian isn’t just monkeying around (SFGate.com, 9/6/01)
• Hidden health risks can upend tech workers’ lives (SFGate.com, 4/10/01)
• The paradoxes of quantum computing (SFGate.com, 8/30/00)

Reviews

• LibreOffice 3.5: The best yet, but rough edges remain (InfoWorld, 2/29/12)
• First look: Adobe Edge Preview makes HTML Dance (InfoWorld, 8/17/11)
• Samsung Chromebook Series 5 3G (InfoWorld, 7/13/11)
• Flash Player 10.2 for Android 3.0 (InfoWorld, 4/14/11)
• Office 365 First Look (InfoWorld, 11/24/10)
• Microsoft Office 2010 Web Apps (InfoWorld, 6/15/10)
• Microsoft Office 2010 (InfoWorld, 6/13/09)
• Ubuntu 9.04 Preview (InfoWorld, 4/28/09)
• Netbooks for Business (InfoWorld.com, 8/11/08)
• Ubuntu Linux 8.04 Preview (InfoWorld, 3/24/08)
• Open source apps for small business (PC World, 1/30/08)
• OpenSuse Linux 10.3 (PC World, 10/29/07)
• Ubuntu Linux 7.10 (PC World, 10/29/07)
• Nokia 770: A Linux-based ugly duckling (InfoWorld, 1/4/06)
• RIM BlackBerry 7100t (InfoWorld, 3/4/05)

Opinion/Analysis

(see also: Fatal Exception and Neil McAllister on Software)

• Why Oracle will buy Sun Microsystems (InfoWorld.com, 4/9/09)
• MySQL: Sun’s billion-dollar baby (InfoWorld.com, 1/17/08)
• GPL v3: V for vindication (InfoWorld.com, 4/2/07)
• Mr. Gates, tear down this wall (InfoWorld.com, 3/26/07)
• At 25, Sun struggles to reinvent itself (InfoWorld.com, 2/26/07)
• Seven ways Solaris can beat Linux (InfoWorld.com, 1/22/07)
• The mythical open source miracle (InfoWorld.com, 12/11/06)
• Microsoft’s Linux indemnification trap (InfoWorld.com, 11/13/06)
• Open source needs a profit motive (InfoWorld.com, 9/4/06)
• McAfee cries wolf on open source (InfoWorld.com, 7/24/06)
• FSF: Free as in “do what I say” (InfoWorld.com, 5/29/06)
• Oracle: The new scourge of open source? (InfoWorld.com, 2/20/06)
• The database the community won’t build (InfoWorld.com, 11/14/05)
• Kicking the Microsoft Office habit (InfoWorld.com, 9/12/05)
• China: An IT offshoring superpower? (InfoWorld.com, 8/15/05)
• In praise of DRM (InfoWorld.com, 7/25/07)
• Sun and Oracle: America’s doormen? (SFGate.com, 10/16/01)
• No scorched-Internet policy (SFGate.com, 9/20/01)
• Civil rights or copyrights? (SFGate.com, 8/2/01)
• Can digital media match longevity of print? (SFGate.com, 5/8/01)
• HavenCo’s guerilla marketing (SFGate.com, 6/29/00)

Short Pieces

• Top five Chrome OS myths debunked (InfoWorld, 11/23/09)
• What is Chrome OS, anyway? (InfoWorld, 11/19/09)
• Devices gain an edge with Linux (InfoWorld, 9/4/06)
• Collaboration yields new frontiers for multimedia (InfoWorld, 9/4/06)
• Steering clear of proprietary messaging (InfoWorld, 9/4/06)
• Emerging information lifecycle management standards (InfoWorld, 6/6/06)
• The LAMP alternative to J2EE or .Net (InfoWorld, 4/4/05)
• Lightweight and open architectures (InfoWorld, 3/11/05)
• Customers don’t have to hate interactive voice apps (InfoWorld, 2/4/06)
• Identity’s role in SOA (InfoWorld, 9/3/04)
• The global challenge of identity standards (InfoWorld, 9/3/04)
• End of the line for NetWare? (InfoWorld, 7/9/04)
• Back to the mainframe (InfoWorld, 3/26/04)

Interviews/Profiles

• Mark Goodge, CTO, National Naval Medical Center (InfoWorld, 6/5/06)
• Dan Canzano, VP of IT, Paychex (InfoWorld, 6/5/06)
• Tim Bray, Sun Microsystems (InfoWorld, 4/3/06)
• Tim Bray on Web standards (New Architect, 9/5/02)
• Tim Pozar, BAWUG (New Architect, 8/7/02)
• Gervase Markham, mozilla.org (New Architect, 7/2/02)
• Dr. Thomas Braddich, IBM (New Architect, 6/1/02)
• John Montgomery, Microsoft (New Architect, 3/10/02)
• James Alexander, Adobe (New Architect, 1/22/02)

Multimedia

• Public radio interview about tech’s biggest flops (Future Tense, 1/22/08)
• Brian Stevens on Red Hat and virtualization (InfoWorld.com, 2/14/07)
• Craig Newmark on Net Neutrality (InfoWorld.com, 7/19/06)

Books

• Information Security: A Strategic Guide for Business (Pricewaterhouse Coopers, 2003 / Coauthor)