Darryl K. Taft

Sun Microsystems and the GlassFish community have released Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v3, which they described as “the latest release of Sun’s commercial Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE) application server and its open-source counterpart, GlassFish v3.” Sun’s news release continued, “Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 is the industry’s first application server to support the […]

Sun Microsystems has announced the release of the Java Platform Enterprise Edition 6 along with industry support from Java technology licensees including Caucho, IBM, Oracle and Red Hat. Java EE is a leading platform for web and enterprise application development and deployment. The Java EE SDK has been downloaded more than 18 million times and […]

WASHINGTON–Microsoft’s “Software + Services” strategy-delivering bits to customers in a variety of ways, from on-premises software to full-blown public and private cloud services-is nowhere more evident than in the company’s approach to the federal sector. Perhaps it is because of federal rules, regulations, procurement policies and whatnot, but in the federal sector, Microsoft’s strategy, which […]

WASHINGTON-As the IT industry braces for the emerging cloud computing wave, no other sector is as well-suited to operating in the cloud as the federal government. So said a group of cloud computing experts, who extolled the benefits of cloud computing while inviting government IT managers to “jump in” and start piloting cloud computing projects. […]

Google has introduced GWT 2.0, the latest version of Google Web Toolkit, the search giant’s “open-source development tool kit used by thousands of developers … for building and optimizing complex browser-based applications,” it said in a news release Dec. 9. Recent “improvements in browser speed and capabilities” enable the creation of “ever larger and richer […]

Microsoft has announced the formation of a new group focusing on cloud computing and moving the lessons learned in the cloud into Microsoft’s server products and vice versa. In a Dec. 8 post on the company’s Windows Azure team blog, Microsoft announced “a new organization within the Server & Tools Business (STB) that combines the […]

Opera Software has announced that within one week of its release, more than 12 million people downloaded Opera 10.10 with Opera Unite. Opera officials said 12.5 million people discovered the power of Opera 10.10 with Opera Unite during the first week after its release. This download rate shatters previous Opera records and marks an increase […]

Wind River has announced the release of its commercial version of open-source Android optimized on the Open Multimedia Application Platform (OMAP) 3 platform from Texas Instruments. The Wind River Platform for Android is a validated, fully compliant operating system platform based on the latest versions of the Android software development kit (SDK), available with preintegrated […]

Micro Focus, a provider of enterprise application modernization, testing and management solutions, has announced the release of RUMBA 8, a version of the company’s terminal emulation suite designed to support new technologies and the Windows 7 operating system. The new version delivers a redesigned, modern user interface with productivity and security enhancements, Micro Focus officials […]

Input, a market research company focusing on the government sector, has identified five technology trends that it says will transform the federal government: cloud computing, virtualization, service-oriented architecture, open-source software and geospatial technologies. According to a Dec. 7 news release based on Input’s November report, “Emerging Technology Markets in the U.S. Federal Government, 2009-2014,” these […]

As mainframe use remains a fact of life in enterprise IT today, software makers such as Clerity Solutions and Compuware continue turning out new software and services to support developers building applications for the mainframe platform. Clerity said in a news release Dec. 7: ““Clerity Solutions, a full-service provider of mainframe migration, modernization and optimization […]

SOA Software has announced a new cloud services governance initiative known as Atmosphere. SOA Software’s Atmosphere initiative creates a unifying brand for a suite of SOA (service oriented architecture) and cloud services governance products the company will deliver through 2010. The Atmosphere products will help companies realize the enormous cost and agility benefits possible with […]