Darryl K. Taft

Though Facebook’s acquisition of FriendFeed seemed to garner most of the headlines on Aug. 10, the bigger story for the enterprise was easily VMware’s announcement of its intent to acquire SpringSource for $362 million to bolster its cloud strategy against Microsoft and others. Make no mistake, that is what’s at the core of VMware’s move […]

IBM has announced an expansion of its Business Analytics and Optimization practice to focus on solutions for public-sector clients. IBM initially announced the launch of its Business Analytics and Optimization practice in April, but on Aug. 11 the systems giant “announced the creation of a new practice focused on delivering advanced analytic solutions to public […]

Research In Motion has launched a new blog site for BlackBerry application developers. The BlackBerry Developer’s Blog is “focused upon providing solutions for all stages of the BlackBerry development life cycle. The Developer’s Blog is a forum [in which] to share best practices, market insight and developer-engagement opportunities with the development community,” RIM said on […]

Microsoft has updated its Visual Studio tool set with new capabilities to better support parallel programming. With its new add-in for Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft is providing support for debugging Message Passing Interface (MPI) programs. The VS 2008 add-in technology will be included in Visual Studio 2010. MPI is a language-independent communications protocol used to […]

Intel made a bunch of announcements at the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH) show, including a new software development kit (SDK) for media application development. At SIGGRAPH in New Orleans, Intel announced a new tool for simplifying the development of hardware accelerated video applications, the Intel […]

The Portland Group, a subsidiary of STMicroelectronics, has announced the general availability of PGI Visual Fortran Release 9.0 for Windows workstations, servers and clusters. PVF 9.0 is the first general release to include support for the building, launching and debugging of Microsoft MPI (MSMPI) Fortran applications from within the Microsoft Visual Studio integrated development environment. […]

Openbravo has announced the release of a new integrated business management solution built on top of Ubuntu Server Edition, Openbravo ERP 2.50 Professional Subscription for Ubuntu. Openbravo ERP 2.50 Professional Subscription for Ubuntu is available through Openbravo’s partner network. This integrated offering combines Openbravo ERP 2.50 and Ubuntu Server Edition, including Openbravo’s support on the […]

After having reportedly scuttled thousands of jobs already this year, IBM is in the midst of another round of layoffs that is expected to affect hundreds of its employees, according to an IBM employee group. According to Alliance@IBM, an organization working to unionize IBM’s U.S. employees, Big Blue is cutting hundreds of jobs, primarily in […]

If a recent Evans Data study is any indication, private cloud deployments could rise sharply over the next year. According to the Evans Data Cloud Development Survey, 48.9 percent of developers surveyed said they plan to deploy applications in a private cloud in the coming year. The survey also showed that 29.7 percent of developers […]

Microsoft has opened registration for its Professional Developers Conference, to be held Nov. 16 to 19 in Los Angeles, including pre-conference workshops. PDC is “the definitive Microsoft event for software developers and strategic architects focused on the future of the Microsoft platform,” according to the company’s press materials. This year Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray […]

IBM on Aug. 3 announced the opening of a new analytics center in China. IBM’s China Analytics Solution Center is part of a network of global centers the systems giant is opening to address “the growing demand for advanced analytics capabilities needed to help clients build smarter business systems and drive improved decision-making,” IBM said […]

Microsoft on July 31 released a preview of Version 2 of its ASP.NET MVC Web application development system. In a blog post on the release, Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of Microsoft .NET Developer Platform, said the new ASP.NET MVC V2 preview works with .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1 and Visual Studio 2008, and “can […]