Darryl K. Taft

Adobe announced that its digital media push is paying off with serious momentum in its digital publishing products, additional HTML5 support, enhanced video and developer tools support. At Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2012 in Barcelona, Spain, Adobe Systems announced that more than 16 million digital publications were powered by its Adobe Digital Publishing Suite across […]

In an aggressive move against its key competition, IBM announced new resources to help customers migrate from competing hardware platforms while also claiming Big Blue recorded nearly 2,400 competitive displacements in 2011 for its servers and storage systems. IBM said nearly 40 percent of the 2,400 displacements came from HP and more than 25 percent […]

Visual Studio 11 Beta Microsoft will ship a beta of Visual Studio 11 and .NET Framework 4.5 on Feb. 29. Java Projects Team Foundation Server Build triggers a build of a Java project using a Java build engine. Code Clone–Comparing Two Matches Comparing matching instances of code detected by a code clone analysis. Give Feedback […]

Microsoft announced that it will deliver beta versions of Visual Studio 11 and the .NET Framework 4.5 on Feb. 29. In a €œsneak peek€ with press and analysts on Feb. 23, Microsoft shared some information on what will be in the next major version of its flagship development tools suite, code-named Visual Studio 11. S. […]

OpenLogic, a provider of enterprise open-source solutions for the data center and the cloud, announced that it has added support for high-volume cloud applications and Websites to its CloudSwing platform as a service (PaaS) solution. New CloudSwing capabilities include deploying a pool of servers, load balancing across servers, the ability to scale the application tier […]

Mozilla is expected to announce plans for its own app store that will launch later this year and is working on a smartphone that would run apps on the phone€™s browser, according to a report in the San Jose Mercury News. The report said Mozilla is expected to announce on Feb. 22 plans for its […]

More Than 9 Million Served Oracle estimates that there are more than 9 million Java developers worldwide. No. 1 Choice for Developers Java is the No. 1 language on the TIOBE Index and has been for months and months. The TIOBE Programming Community index is an indicator of the popularity of programming languages. The index […]

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) celebrated the 17th anniversary of the Apache HTTP Server by delivering version 2.4 of the technology. ASF officials said as of Feb. 21 there are nearly 400 million Websites powered by the Apache HTTP Server, which has been the most popular Web server on the Internet since April 1996. Within […]

The Origins: 1992 In September 1992, three German university math students and a recently graduated software engineer formed a company to develop software, as well as function as an advisory Unix group. Seeing the potential of Linux, the team decided to distribute Linux operating systems and offer support services. It chose the name “S.u.S.E,” using […]

The Apache Software Foundation’s (ASF) Deltacloud interoperability toolkit has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project (TLP). Apache Deltacloud defines a RESTful Web service API for interacting with cloud service providers and resources in those clouds in a unified manner. It also consists of a number of implementations of this API for […]