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Jon Walker

Jon Walker serves as CTO of Versora, an ISV providing Microsoft to Linux migration software. Mr. Walker recently has co-authored 2 whitepapers with Novell titled Migrating from IS Web Servers to Apache SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9.0 and Migrating File and Print Servers from Windows to SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9. Prior to Versora, Mr. Walker was CTO/VP of Engineering for Miramar Systems. Software developed under his direction at Miramar has been deployed to over 20 million computers worldwide. Mr. Walker has also served as senior technologist for Nortel and Xing Technology (now Real Networks).
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Open Source Project LASSO
for Log Management By Jon Walker  Recently, I had the
pleasure of speaking with
Anton Chuvakin, Director
of Product Management at
LogLogic. We had an
interesting discussion
about log management and
the open source project
he's involved in that
collects Windows event
logs. Here's an overview
of our chat. Jun. 10, 2007 01:45 PM Reads: 11,181 Replies: 2 | Fujitsu Siemens
Simplifies the
Complexities of Software
Testing By Jon Walker  Customers have high
expectations that their
software solutions have
been stress-tested
thoroughly in advance for
every conceivable
combination of events
that might occur in
production and that
vendors who put out buggy
products are exposed
quickly. Feb. 17, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 9,815 | University of North
Carolina at Charlotte
Capitalizes on More Bang
for Fewer Bucks By Jon Walker  For the University of
North Carolina at
Charlotte (UNCC), using
technology to further the
education of its 21,000
graduate and
undergraduate students is
nothing new. In 1983,
UNCC became the first
U.S. university to
electronically categorize
its library, and for t... Feb. 16, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 8,117 | Rebuffing Microsoft's
Spin About Linux
Management By Jon Walker  Over the last few years,
we've seen and heard some
pretty visceral reactions
from the Linux community
to Microsoft-funded
reports about Linux.
Rightfully so - some of
the 'facts' in
Microsoft's 'Get the
Facts' campaign have been
outright false and most
have been m... Apr. 20, 2006 02:30 PM Reads: 8,367 Replies: 1 | Linux.SYS-CON.com
Feature: Novell OES, The
Leading Linux Server
Product vs. Windows 2003,
Server By Jon Walker  As Linux continues to
make significant inroads
into the data center, I
think it's important to
look under the hood of a
leading Linux server
product and compare it to
its rival, Microsoft.
Whether I'm looking to
buy a car, a stereo, or
even a refrigerator, I've
al... Dec. 27, 2005 02:45 PM Reads: 47,772 Replies: 4 | Jon Walker's
Linux.SYS-CON.com Blog:
Windows Is Not Linux or
Linux Is Not Windows? By Jon Walker Here is a long
justification I ran
across that argues that
the real problem with
Linux adoption is that it
is different from
Windows. In other words
people coming from
Windows to Linux just
have the wrong
expectations. I don't
quite buy the argument
which I feel... Dec. 11, 2005 01:15 PM Reads: 6,380 Replies: 1 | Should Open Source
Applications Run On
Windows? By Jon Walker  There's been some
interesting debate in the
Open Source community
regarding Open Source
applications that run
both on Linux and
Windows. One camp feels
most users select an
operating system based on
its available
applications. If the
applications people want
are... Aug. 12, 2005 03:00 PM Reads: 9,790 | Migrating File and Print
Services from Windows to
Linux By Jon Walker  Most organizations
provide their users with
the ability to print,
store, and access files
on network servers.
Accessing and saving
files to network drives
and printing to shared
network printers is
probably something
administrators don't
spend much time thinking
... Jul. 13, 2005 08:45 PM Reads: 23,847 Replies: 1 | How to Migrate from
Microsoft IIS Web Server
to Apache on Linux By Jon Walker  In Part 1 ('Why Are You
Waiting?', Vol. 2, issue
9), I discussed the
business and technical
considerations in
migrating Microsoft IIS
Web servers to Apache on
Linux. Now, I'll address
those who've decided that
migrating to Apache on
Linux is the way to go
for thei... Jun. 25, 2005 12:45 PM Reads: 23,175 Replies: 1 | Thin Client Linux: Thin
Is In By Jon Walker  As with all big
conferences, LinuxWorld
Boston earlier this year
had a few broad themes
that you couldn't help be
exposed to just by
walking the floor. One
that caught me by
surprise was the
excitement around thin
client Linux. At first I
attributed it to a
comb... Jun. 14, 2005 10:00 AM Reads: 20,828 Replies: 3 | Migrating to Open Source
Databases Running on
Linux By Jon Walker  Open source databases
running on Linux like
MySQL, Ingres r3,
PostgreSQL, and Firebird
have aroused a lot of
interest. Database
developers and corporate
users are heralding the
anticipated the release
of MySQL 5.0, which
includes enterprise-level
features such as ... May. 30, 2005 12:15 PM Reads: 19,056 | Windows-to-Linux Desktop
Migration Road Map By Jon Walker International Data
Corporation (IDC)
released a study in
December 2004 noting that
the worldwide Linux
market for PCs, servers,
and software will hit $35
billion by 2008. There's
a general industry
consensus that we're at
the brink of a major
Windows-to-Linux
mi... Feb. 8, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 15,625 | Why Are You Waiting? By Jon Walker Why haven't you already
moved your Microsoft
Windows IIS server
infrastructure to Apache
on Linux? Does the idea
that something is
inexpensive (free)
automatically bring to
mind the old adage, 'You
get what you pay for?' Do
you fear that your IT
staff will not be ... Aug. 31, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 13,558 |
YOUR FEEDBACK  | Progress Software to
Acquire IONA Technologies By SOA World Magazine News Desk Varun Dube wrote: Hi,
I saw this coming. Most
SOA product vendors were
busy strengthening there
core SOA stack and SOA
quality and operations
were totally ignored
areas. I had in my post
predicted that increasing
awareness amongst
customers would spark
another wave on
consoli... |  | AJAX and Enterprise RIA
Tools - JSF, Flex, and
JavaFX By Max Katz Michael wrote: As
Photoshop and Co can
export to JavaFX this
would be really
interesting in Xara 4 ,
as it is my prefered
program. Are there any
plugins or is it coming
from Xara itself in the
near future?
hopefully! I'm
interesting too who needs
that ....
yours
Michael |  | Consolidated Disaster
Recovery Using
Virtualization By Virtualization News Desk Karen wrote: We're
praying that the right
decisions will be made.
www.choosejesusrightnow.c
om |  | Opinion: Give ColdFusion
Some Room to Breathe By Andrew Powell Kai Tischler wrote: Hello
Andy !
I have just recently
rediscovered the possible
value of "ColdFusion on
Java"; and now we have
also "CF Groovy" at our
disposal ...
My question is really:
You mentioned that You
use Java for domain
modeling; how do You do
this concretely in a
"... |  | EnterpriseDB Recruits New
CEO from Red Hat By Maureen O'Gara Bob Zurek wrote: Andy has
done a terrific job as a
leader, co-founder and
president / ceo to drive
success of the company
during its 4 years and
phases of development.
The commentator that
describes people as
"idiots" and
"incompetent" under some
bogus name deserve no
respect. Give me a break! |
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