Darryl K. Taft

Novell and friends have abandoned support for Moonlight, the open-source version of Microsoft€™s Silverlight rich Internet application plug-in technology, according to a founder of the project. In an interview with InfoQ, Miguel de Icaza, a well-known open-source developer and CTO of Xamarin, announced that support for Moonlight has been abandoned. €œWe have abandoned Moonlight,€ de […]

The application performance management (APM) market continues to heat up as AppDynamics, a provider of APM software, announced the release of AppDynamics Lite for .NET. AppDynamics officials called the new offering a production-ready performance monitoring tool for Microsoft€™s .NET framework. The company expanded the scope of AppDynamics Lite, which has been available for the Java […]

The platform-as-a-service space will be the next battleground for cloud service providers, as the infrastructure-as-a-service and software-as-a-service markets face commoditization, according to a study by Frost & Sullivan. Frost & Sullivan€™s new €œAsia-Pacific Platform as a Service Market 2011€ report shows that in that region the PaaS market is attracting considerable interest from businesses due […]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) continues to work to improve its cloud computing strategy, offering new features and focus with each iteration and flavor. Most recently, IBM announced new software designed to improve data sharing and automate marketing and supply chain processes in the cloud. At its Smarter Commerce Global Summit in Madrid, IBM announced new cloud […]

Simple Code to Solve Complex Problems F# is expressive and concise, which allows developers to implement their algorithms more directly. This means less boilerplate; code becomes easier to read and maintain. F# Understands Your Data Thanks to F# type providers and query expressions, developers can easily access both data and its schema, turning the data […]

Despite an unsettling period surrounding its former CEO and the naming of a new one, Yahoo is looking ahead by making a splash into the browser world with its new Axis plug-in. Yahoo Axis aims to be smarter and faster than other browsers, the company said. The Axis plug-in enables users to enter their search, […]

The use of open-source software is clearly on the rise in the enterprise, as evidenced by the momentum of a key player offering a critical service for enterprise adoption of open source: open-source scanning. OpenLogic, a provider of open-source scanners, open-source governance solutions and community-backed open-source support for the data center and the cloud, today […]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced the completion of its acquisition of Varicent Software, a provider of analytics software for compensation and sales performance management. IBM has been on a buying spree of analytics software providers, with Varicent its latest acquisition. IBM also has been beefing up its commerce play with the company€™s Smarter Commerce strategy. Varicent’s […]

Microsoft, IBM and several other companies have joined forces to move the Open Data Protocol, also known as OData, to the OASIS standards body. As enterprises look for greater access to data across multiple platforms and devices, and cloud computing also plays a part in driving the need for a common approach to expose and […]

Two hot providers of testing and application performance management have teamed up to deliver Web performance insight from development to operations, bringing a unique approach to the concept of DevOps. SOASTA, a provider of cloud and mobile testing, and New Relic, a software as a service-based (SaaS-based) cloud application performance management provider, announced their partnership […]