Darryl K. Taft

It’s rare to last 100 years in a business, but to last 100 years in the technology business is next to impossible. Well, IBM will officially pull off the impossible in mid-June when the company celebrates 100 years in business. When the company was formed as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (C-T-R) in 1911, its founders probably […]

Top 20 IBM Products/Innovations The IBM Punch Card Perhaps the earliest icon of the Information Age was a simple punched card produced by IBM known as the “IBM card.” Measuring just 7-3/8 inches by 3-1/4 inches, the piece of smooth stock paper was unassuming. But taken collectively, the IBM card held nearly all the world’s […]

The Outercurve Foundation announced that it has accepted contribution of the DotNetOpenAuth project into the organization’s ASP.NET Open Source Gallery. The Outercurve Foundation, formerly the CodePlex Foundation, provides a framework to facilitate the participation of corporate software developers in open-source projects. DotNetOpenAuth, a .NET library of authentication and authorization protocols, adds support for OpenID, OAuth […]

Keeping with its longtime focus on aiding and abetting developers, Microsoft plans to hold a new, one-time-only developer conference to be held in September called BUILD. At Microsoft’s MIX11 conference in April, Steven Sinofsky, president of Windows and Windows Live at Microsoft, announced that Microsoft will hold its next major developer conference in Anaheim, Calif., […]

Keeping its promise to continually increase its focus on software, HP has introduced a new suite of software to measure and improve IT performance for enterprise customers. “We are repositioning our entire portfolio into the HP Performance Suite. We’re in a position to cover, end to end, the operational and analytical needs of enterprise IT […]

Research In Motion has launched a beta of its BlackBerry Java software development kit version 7.0. The BlackBerry 7 Java SDK provides a set of tools and APIs that enable developers to leverage key new features of the next generation of BlackBerry smartphones running the BlackBerry 7 OS, including the recently announced BlackBerry Bold 9900 […]

NEON Enterprise Software, a maker of mainframe software, announced it has settled its legal dispute with IBM and will immediately withdraw its zPrime product from the market. In the May 31 announcement, NEON said that pursuant to the terms of a permanent injunction, NEON and its distribution partners and affiliates will no longer market, sell, […]

According to a recent Evans Data survey, IBM’s Rational tool suite ranked tops in user satisfaction according to data collected from developers in April. In Evans Data’s annual User’s Choice Software Development Platform survey, IBM’s Rational toolset was rated as the best in six different categories, including application modeling, requirements management, support for remote development, […]

Twice as Fast According to Crimson Consulting, Adobes Acrobat X software can be twice as fast as using Microsoft Office 2010. 50 Percent Faster in Some Areas Acrobat X is 50 percent faster than Microsoft Office 2010 in some areas, such as in signing and sending secure documents. 7 Hours a Week The IT decision-makers […]

Jaspersoft, a maker of business intelligence software, has announced enhancements to the Jaspersoft 4 BI Suite, including new data analysis functionality and native 64-bit support. Company officials said Jaspersoft 4.1 introduces a unified analysis environment that allows business users to explore data from online analytical processing (OLAP), relational and big data sources. And unlike traditional […]

Serena Software has announced new technology and customer milestones in its Orchestrated Application Lifecycle Management strategy. Serena officials said customer success stories from the field, including CVS Caremark and Kutxa-Vital Banco de Madrid, along with enhanced requirements and development management solutions and a new Orchestrated ALM dashboard, demonstrate that Serena is delivering on its ALM […]

New Relic has announced the release of real user monitoring as part of its core SAAS, or software as a service, application performance management offering. New Relic Real User Monitoring measures key front-end metrics from the moment a user request is initiated in the application, to the final loading of the resulting Web page, the […]