Darryl K. Taft

REDMOND, Wash. €“ Want to run Java on .NET? Take a look at IKVM.NET. At the Microsoft Lang.Next 2012 conference here, Jeroen Frijters, co-founder of Sumatra Software b.v. and the founder of the IKVM.NET project, demonstrated IKVM.NET, an open-source Java virtual machine on .NET. Frijters said IKVM is the Java VM on top of .NET […]

AOL (NYSE: AOL) has agreed to sell more than 800 of its patents and their related patent applications to Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and to grant Microsoft a nonexclusive license to its retained patent portfolio for around $1.1 billion. Following the sale, AOL will continue to hold a significant portfolio of more than 300 patents and […]

Program Size Andy Adams-Moran said there are 20,000 to 200,000 lines of code included in Haskell projects out in the wild. This tends to be much smaller than many major programs written in other languages. Proven Technology Adams-Moran said the oldest Haskell projects are approaching 10 years in use. Team Development Haskell projects are typically […]

IBM and the Birth of Database Software Before introducing DB2, IBM led the way for the database software industry by developing innovations to organize data for large and complex government projects, starting in 1966 with the IBM Information Management System or IMS/DB, which was a hierarchical database created for the Apollo space program. IBM Introduces […]

In a post aimed at informing Windows Phone developers about developing on Windows Phone 8, it appears Microsoft has managed to raise more questions and concerns, rather than simply reaching out to developers starved for information. The post on the Windows Phone Developer Blog by Larry Lieberman, a senior product manager at Microsoft, was meant […]

Timeline Pictured here is a massive 50-foot timeline on the history of math from IBM’s Mathematica exhibit at the 1964 World’s Fair in New York City. The exhibit has been digitally reinvented as an interactive experience for IBM’s free iPad app—Minds of Modern Mathematics. Math Way Back When Here’s a screen shot of a massive […]

OpenStack has announced €œEssex,€ the fifth version of its community-driven, open-source cloud operating system, with a focus on quality, usability and extensibility across enterprise, service provider and high-performance computing (HPC) deployments. The OpenStack Essex news comes just days after Citrix announced its plans for the next version of its CloudStack cloud platform, which the company […]

To celebrate the history of math and its impact on the world, IBM (NYSE: IBM) has released Minds of Modern Mathematics, a new iPad app. The new app re-imagines a classic 50-foot infographic on the history of math. The husband-and-wife design team of Charles and Ray Eames created the infographic, which was displayed at the […]

OmniTI, a provider of Web infrastructures and applications, has announced OmniOS, an open-source operating system for application developers in the Solaris community looking for reliable, innovative, data-intensive application deployment. The Columbia, Md.-based company that focuses on delivering scalable, high-performance, mission-critical solutions announced its new OS at the DTrace Conference in San Francisco on April 3. […]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) is the market-share leader in middleware software for the eleventh consecutive year, according to research firm Gartner. According to a Gartner report, IBM was the leading software vendor in 2011, with 32.1 percent market share, extending its lead to nearly double that of its closest competitor. Gartner said IBM grew 12.4 percent […]