Darryl K. Taft

Engine Yard, provider of a popular platform as a service (PaaS), announced support for Java in the cloud, an incremental step for the PaaS player that started out wedded to Ruby. Engine Yard launched in 2006 as a PaaS focused on Ruby on Rails. The platform expanded to support Ruby, JRuby, PHP, Node.js and now […]

IBM plans to invest $17 million in a new cloud data center located in Bogota, Colombia. This is the 25th cloud center IBM has opened globally. IBM said the new center will provide Colombian companies with cloud computing and big data services. The new facility expands the $8 million investment IBM made in Colombia when […]

Coverity, a provider of application development testing, Sept. 19 announced that its software enables an open-source tool known as ANother Tool for Language Recognition, or ANTLR, to find and fix open-source software defects. Coverity released the results of its latest Coverity Scan Project Spotlight, which analyzed the ANTLR Java project, including defect density as compared […]

Ashton-Tate’s dBASE was one of the most popular early PC applications, as the Swiss Army Knife of databases when it first hit the market back in 1980. Ashton-Tate began distributing the widely popular dBASE database management system (DBMS) for the CP/M operating system in 1980. Very quickly dBASE grew in popularity because of its simplicity […]

AppDynamics, a feisty provider of application performance management (APM) solutions, announced its acquisition of Nodetime, which offers a solution for monitoring Node.js applications. As one of only a handful of Node.js monitoring tools, nabbing Nodetime is a coup for AppDynamics, whose claim to fame is simplifying the management of complex applications. Indeed, AppDynamics officials claim […]

IBM—staying on its task of helping enterprises handle data in all forms, shapes and sizes—announced the acquisition of Daeja Image Systems, a maker of software that simplifies access to unstructured data. Daeja’s software is designed to make it easier for business and IT professionals to view large documents and images. The privately held firm is […]

IBM’s Linux Investment: A Look at Years of Commitment By Darryl K. Taft 1993 Two years after it was developed and its source code released, Linux has taken off and hundreds of developers, including engineers from IBM, are using it. Late 1990s During a world tour of Internet companies and introductions to young developers all […]

More than a decade after initially pledging to invest $1 billion in Linux, IBM has once again announced it will invest $1 billion into improving the operating system on its Power Systems. At LinuxCon 2013, IBM announced plans to invest $1 billion in new Linux and open-source technologies for the company’s Power Systems servers. The […]

Infragistics, a development tools provider, has released a new version of Indigo Studio, an interaction design tool that incorporates rapid, interactive user interface (UI) wireframing and prototyping with user-centered storyboarding. The new release, Indigo Studio version 2, has been updated with a host of new features to simplify the process of designing mobile experiences without […]

IBM has introduced a new suite of social, mobile and big data offerings to help businesses gain deeper insight into their customers’ needs and desires. The new technologies, which come out of IBM’s Customer Experience Lab–based in IBM Research–help transform the way customers experience their products, services and brands through the use of mobile, social, […]

Today is Programmer Day, a day to celebrate programmers and thank them for all that they do, according to the Programmer Day site. Programmer Day is celebrated on the 256th day of the year, which is Sept. 13—or Sept. 12 on leap years. Launched in 2007, ProgrammerDay.info was created to make a virtual home for […]

Pentaho and MongoDB have announced advanced MongoDB integration with the Pentaho Business Analytics 5.0 platform, which launched Sept. 12. Together, these technologies provide an interactive analytical solution that meets the increasing requirements for big data in businesses today, Jake Cornelius, senior vice president of products at Pentaho, told eWEEK. The expanded level of native integration […]