Darryl K. Taft

The Mono Project has released the first preview of Moonlight 3.0, giving a first look at the open-source implementation of Microsoft’s Silverlight 3 technology for the Linux platform. The preview comes about a month and a half after the release of Moonlight 2, which shipped on Dec. 17 and also included some Silverlight 3.0 functionality, […]

The Symbian Foundation has announced its completion of the open-sourcing of the Symbian Platform with the release of Symbian 3. On Feb. 4, Symbian Foundation officials said the organization had successfully completed the open-source release of the source code for the Symbian Platform, which has become the world’s most widely used smartphone operating system. Indeed, […]

IBM has announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Initiate Systems, a maker of data integrity software for information sharing among health care and government organizations. Chicago-based Initiate marks IBM’s 30th acquisition aimed at beefing up Big Blue’s information management and analytics capabilities. Since 2005, IBM has invested $10 billion in 14 other […]

Microsoft has moved to update its Security Development Lifecycle to make it easier for developers to create new applications with security in mind at the front end of the application development cycle. At the Black Hat security conference in Washington, Microsoft made a series of announcements around its SDL architecture. For instance, Microsoft announced a […]

As predicted, Facebook has delivered a new PHP platform called HipHop for PHP that delivers much improved performance to the popular PHP scripting language that is known for its relative lack of performance. As Facebook uses PHP extensively for many of its systems, the social networking leader put a small team of engineers together to […]

Is Facebook working on a new compiler for PHP to speed up the language? According to Alex Handy at SDTimes, Facebook is set to make some kind of major announcement regarding PHP on or around Tuesday, Feb. 2. In a Jan. 30 blog post, Handy wrote: ““Well, I was able to put all the pieces […]

Two leading vendors in the IT systems and performance management tools fraternity, CA and Compuware, have released quarterly earnings results and shed light on future plans for their respective product and services strategies. On Jan. 28, both CA and Compuware announced third-quarter earnings. In addition, CA announced the appointment of William McCracken as its CEO. […]

IronJS is an open-source project working to deliver an implementation of the popular JavaScript Web development language to the Microsoft .NET Framework. Fredrik Holmstrom, a programmer in Gothenburg, Sweden, created IronJS as part of a larger project he is building out. Holmstrom said he uses C# and JavaScript for his professional work, and a mix […]

Compuware has announced Gomez adVantage, a subscription-based solution for optimizing application performance management in Web and mobile solutions. With Gomez adVantage, Compuware brings together two of its technologies-its Gomez Web performance and Vantage real-user monitoring solutions-into one integrated offering for user organizations such as enterprises, software-as-a-service (SAAS) providers, and cloud infrastructure and platform providers, the […]

When Oracle lays its cards on the table to present its road map for the combined Oracle and Sun Microsystems organization, one thing developers can expect is consistency as far as Java is concerned, according to an Oracle executive. In a meeting with eWEEK on Jan. 26, just a day before Oracle CEO Larry Ellison […]

Yes, there will be a JavaOne this year. During Oracle’s “Oracle + Sun Strategy Update” talk at the company’s conference center in Redwood Shores, Calif., Oracle President Charles Phillips announced that JavaOne would be held Sept. 19 to 23 in San Francisco. JavaOne is the largest annual convention for Java developers, previously put on by […]

Instantiations, a maker of software quality, security and productivity tools for the Eclipse open source software platform, has announced an upgrade to version 7.3 of its graphical user interface (GUI) building product, GWT Designer. The new release brings GWT Designer in sync with the latest major new release of the open source Google Web Toolkit […]