Darryl K. Taft

Microsoft has announced a new focus on openness, with the launch of a new wholly owned subsidiary known as Microsoft Open Technologies. In an April 12 blog post, Jean Paoli, the newly named president of the subsidiary, said the goal of Microsoft Open Technologies is €œto advance the company€™s investment in openness€”including interoperability, open standards […]

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PALO ALTO, Calif. €“ Vmware celebrated the first birthday of Cloud Foundry, the company€™s open platform as a service (PaaS), with announcements of new partnerships, a new system for managing open-source software contributions, new tools for operating large-scale services and additional multi-cloud deployment choices. At an event at the VMware headquarters here, company CTO and […]

Is Java€™s run as the most popular programming language around over? Not likely, but according to the TIOBE Programming Community Index, Java no longer holds the top spot as the most popular programming language. The C language does. Java has held its place atop the TIOBE index for the last 10 years€”except for a couple […]

IBM (NYSE:IBM) announced a major step forward in a new, simpler era of computing with the introduction of a new category of “expert integrated systems” that some say represents as big a move for the company as when it introduced the mainframe 50 years ago. Ambuj Goyal, general manager of development in IBM€™s Systems and […]

Research In Motion has announced that at its BlackBerry 10 Jam for developers the company will be releasing the first beta of the BlackBerry 10 developer tools in addition to a host of other goodies for developers. BlackBerry 10 Jam, which will be held in conjunction with BlackBerry World in Orlando, Fla., May 1-3, will […]

FuseSource, a player in the open-source integration and messaging world, has launched a beta program for two new products: Fuse ESB Enterprise 7.0 and Fuse MQ Enterprise 7.0. FuseSource is targeting enterprise software developers, architects and DevOps professionals, whom it would like to participate in a beta program for the two new platforms, which deliver […]

Adobe Systems (NASDAQ:ADBE) has announced that it is making eSignatures available to hundreds of millions of Adobe Reader users, adding greater flexibility for signing, sending and managing documents, whether from a desktop or an iOS or Android mobile device. Adobe announced integration between Adobe Reader and the Adobe EchoSign eSignature service, where users can gain […]

IBM has named seven employees as IBM Fellows€”its most prestigious technical honor€”to acknowledge their contributions and innovations in developing some of the world’s most key technologies. “Technology innovation is at the core of everything we do to help our clients make the world work better,” said Ginni Rometty, IBM president and chief executive officer, in […]

Atlassian, a provider of collaboration software for product teams, today announced the latest release of Confluence, its popular content-creation and collaboration software. Confluence 4.2 accelerates team productivity with new social user-engagement and content-discovery features, such as Quick Comments and Likes, which encourage users to start conversations and share feedback. These features power the new Popular […]