Darryl K. Taft

IBM has announced that it will be providing new social media tools, education programs and other marketing resources to help its service-oriented architecture business partners generate leads and drive sales. These programs will be officially unveiled at the company’s Impact 2009 conference in May. The new package includes Web-based resources such as virtual tradeshows, logo […]

New IBM Consulting Service Delves Deep into Analytics, Business Intelligence by Darryl K. Taft No Title IBM assesses the new business conditions that call for more predictive systems. No Title Organizations must change their approach to business from traditional to a dynamic, fast-paced approach driven by facts gleaned from data analysis. No Title The shift […]

HAWTHORNE, N.Y.-IBM has announced the creation of a new consulting organization dedicated to the market for advanced business analytics and business optimization. At an event held at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center here, IBM announced the creation of its new IBM Business Analytics and Optimization Services line. The new organization will draw on the […]

Ecma International has issued the final draft of the next version of ECMAScript, now known as ECMAScript, Fifth Edition. This latest draft is the final development milestone for the revised standard. The candidate specification will now undergo interoperability and Web compatibility testing, and it is anticipated that the candidate specification will be submitted to the […]

According to reports, IBM is preparing to eliminate thousands of jobs in the United Kingdom and Germany as part of an effort to move more positions to less expensive markets such as Eastern Europe, India, China and South America. IBM already has laid off nearly 10,000 workers this year in the U.S. and now, according […]

According to a recent Evans Data survey, developers are flocking to social networks. The Evans Data survey of more than 400 developers showed that 75 percent of the developers belong to at least one social network and two-thirds belong to multiple networks. Evans Data released its Developer Relations Program Annual Survey on April 3. The […]

Yahoo has announced expanded partnerships with four U.S. universities to advance cloud computing research. The four universities include the University of California at Berkeley, Cornell University and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, which will join Carnegie Mellon University in using Yahoo’s cloud computing cluster to conduct large-scale systems software research and explore new applications […]

Adobe Systems is offering free Flex Builder 3 licenses to unemployed developers. Adobe officials said the company is providing free trial Adobe Flex Builder 3 licenses as part of a “getting started” package that will allow unemployed developers to expand their skills and learn how to build Web applications in Flex. The package also includes […]

Code Systems, maker of the Xenocode application virtualization and delivery technology, has announced support for Microsoft’s Silverlight platform and availability of the online Xenocode Silverlight Sandbox. Xenocode enables developers to distribute Silverlight-based applications without the need for installation of the Silverlight runtime or administrative privileges. The Xenocode Silverlight Sandbox lets users run popular Silverlight applications, […]

Red Hat has announced the official launch of the Teiid data virtualization system project in the JBoss.org Community. Teiid, according to Red Hat, is an open-source community project that aims to deliver EII (Enterprise Information Integration) with both relational and X M L data virtualization. The Teiid project joins other Red Hat-sponsored open-source virtualization projects, […]

Borland Software announced April 9 a newly strengthened relationship with Hewlett-Packard, in which the systems maker will standardize on Borland’s application lifecycle management technology. Click here to read about Borland Management Solutions, based on the Borland Open ALM framework. Borland announced that HP will include Borland’s Open ALM portfolio of products, including Borland StarTeam, Borland […]

Microsoft has scooped up former Sun chip architect Marc Tremblay, in a move that strikes a blow to the besieged software and systems maker and further enriches the software giant. The New York Times first reported word of Tremblay’s departure from Sun to Microsoft, where he will hold the title of distinguished engineer. In a […]