Darryl K. Taft

Terracotta, a provider of enterprise Java scalability infrastructure software, has announced the availability of Terracotta 3.1, which includes Terracotta for Hibernate. Terracotta for Hibernate is a plug-in distributed cache for the widely used Hibernate Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) framework. Coupled with Terracotta’s recent acquisition of the popular Java caching framework, Ehcache, Terracotta 3.1 marks another milestone […]

IBM has announced a new business analytics solution for the midmarket segment, IBM Cognos Express. Big Blue unveiled the new offering on Sept. 14. IBM Cognos Express is an all-in-one business intelligence and planning solution specifically designed and priced for midsized clients, the company said. Deployed in just a matter of hours, the new solution […]

Adobe Systems announced Sept. 15 that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Omniture in a deal valued at $1.8 billion. In a conference call with financial analysts regarding Adobe’s third-quarter earnings as well as the Omniture transaction, Adobe President and CEO Shantanu Narayen said the deal was largely customer-driven-a move to integrate Adobe’s […]

Novell has announced the commercial release of MonoTouch 1.0, a solution for developing applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch using the Microsoft .NET framework, including C# and other .NET programming languages. Novell officials touted the new technology as a liberating concept for iPhone application developers, because developers have primarily built iPhone applications using C […]

Gorilla Logic, an enterprise application development services and consulting company, announced Sept. 14 that its “open-source, automated testing tool for Adobe Flex applications, FlexMonkey, has surpassed the 2,000 unique registered users mark in less than two months.” Gorilla Logic officials said the FlexMonkey Adobe Flex application testing tool is quickly becoming a “de facto standard.” […]

Facebook has announced the open-sourcing of Tornado, a core piece of infrastructure that powers real-time Web services. “Today, we are open-sourcing the non-blocking Web server and the tools that power FriendFeed under the name Tornado Web Server,” said Bret Taylor, Facebook’s director of products and co-founder and former CEO of FriendFeed, which Facebook now owns. […]

Google has released the Google App Engine Launcher for Windows, a graphical user interface for creating, running and deploying App Engine applications when developing on Windows. In a recent blog post, John Grabowski, a software engineer at Google, said Google App Engine 1.2.5 SDK for Python now includes the Google App Engine Launcher for Windows. […]

Just days after being accused of attempting to unleash potentially harmful Linux-related patents to find their way into the hands of open-source-hating patent trolls, Microsoft is now slated to announce its founding of a new foundation to support open-source software. According to foundation documents and published reports, the group will be known as the CodePlex […]

Despite losing a key advocate in its open-source efforts, Microsoft’s focus on advancing its relationship with the open-source community will continue apace. Sam Ramji, Microsoft’s senior director of Platform Strategy, is leaving the company as of Sept. 25 to become interim president of the CodePlex Foundation, a new independent open-source foundation founded and funded by […]

Microsoft’s launch of the CodePlex Foundation represents the culmination of all the company’s open-source related efforts over the last few years, a Microsoft official said. Sam Ramji, who has been Microsoft’s senior director of Platform Strategy, spoke to reporters on a news call and said Microsoft’s recent contribution of 20,000 lines of device driver code […]

Taking a page from the Salesforce.com playbook, SugarCRM has announced the availability of Sugar Community Edition on Amazon EC2 to provide CRM developers with an easy-to-deploy development environment in the cloud. Sugar Community Edition is available now as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI), which enables developers to access, test and develop Sugar code in a […]

Microsoft has released a new tool known as Doloto that enhances the performance of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML-or AJAX-applications. In a blog post, S. “Soma” Somasegar, senior vice president of Microsoft’s Developer Division, laid out the benefits of Doloto. Describing the problem users face, Somasegar said: “AJAX Web applications bring a variety of rich user […]