Darryl K. Taft

The executive who has led the charge for Microsoft€™s Windows original equipment manufacturing (OEM) business for the last several years is stepping away from the position just as the company is facing scrutiny from PC makers after announcing plans to sell its own Windows 8-branded tablets. As reported by BloombergBusinessweek, Steven Guggenheimer, corporate vice president […]

HP and TurnKey Solutions have announced an agreement to deliver automated testing frameworks for enterprises. In a blog post, Matthew Morgan, vice president of product marketing for HP Software, said HP and TurnKey Solutions will deliver automated testing frameworks for enterprise applications via three core components: Business Process Test (BPT) Accelerators, cFactory and docEngine. €œWith […]

JetBrains, the maker of developer productivity tools such as IntelliJ IDEA, has announced the availability of a new release of YouTrack, the company€™s issue-tracking and agile project management system. YouTrack 4.0 introduces a new agile project management module that enables Scrum teams to plan and manage their work during a series of consecutive sprints, while […]

IBM (NYSE:IBM) is tapping into its longtime expertise with virtualization to help enterprises deal with the increasing demand for users to employ their own devices to access corporate or organizational systems. IBM has announced a set of flexible workplace solutions that enable organizations to create a simple, cost-effective environment that enables employees to use any […]

Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) has announced the launch of a new developer productivity initiative known as The JBoss Way and also made a new version of its developer platform available. Red Hat officials said the new JBoss Way initiative is a development approach that provides a more productive and simple way to create modern applications. […]

Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire open-source middleware provider FuseSource from Progress Software. Red Hat did not disclose the financial details of the deal announced June 27 at its Red Hat Summit and JBoss World 2012 event in Boston. However, company officials said FuseSource, a provider of […]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have announced an extension of their 20-year relationship that is expected to boost American competitiveness in high-performance computing. Through a new agreement, IBM and LLNL have formed an HPC collaboration called Deep Computing Solutions to take place within LLNL€™s High Performance Computing Innovation Center (HPCIC). The HPCIC […]

The Eclipse Foundation is aiming to make Java developers smarter, more productive and better equipped to build mobile applications and apps that leverage the €œInternet of Things€ with its latest release train known as Juno. For the ninth year in a row the Eclipse Foundation has issued an annual release train of simultaneous projects. This […]

Black Duck Software has announced the availability of expanded audit services with the addition of new code analytics that can help organizations acquiring new technology better track the code in their environments. The new audit services in the Black Duck Code Quality Audit (CQA) deliver a comprehensive code quality report for internal audits and merger […]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) announced that they are working together to beef up Casio Computer€™s internal infrastructure with a combination of Red Hat virtualization software and IBM systems. Though generally announced this week, the project has been an ongoing effort for several years now. The combination of IBM hardware and Red […]