Darryl K. Taft

Salesforce.com has delivered Salesforce CRM Spring ’09, its cloud computing solution for customer service and sales. Built on the company’s Force.com platform, Salesforce CRM Spring ’09 is available to the company’s nearly 52,000 customers. It is Salesforce.com’s 28th generation release and delivers more than 50 new features. Indeed, in the past year, Salesforce.com has put […]

A recent study from Evans Data indicates that more than twice as many developers in emerging IT markets such as China and India use the Ruby language as use it in North America or Western Europe. According to the Evans Data Emerging Markets Development Survey, over one in five developers in the emerging markets of […]

Adoption of the Open Services Gateway initiative has paid off big-time for WSO2, which refers to itself as “the open-source SOA company,” as the company has reworked its application server and SOA platform based on OSGi. WSO2 on Feb. 9 announced the launch of WSO2 Carbon, the company’s new fully componentized service-oriented architecture framework based […]

Zend Technologies, which refers to itself as the PHP company, announced Feb. 5 that it is “teaming with IBM to preload Zend’s Web stack with every shipment of IBM i software, the integrated operating environment for IBM Power Systems, including all hardware that ships with IBM i.” Zend continued in a news release, “Zend’s PHP-based […]

Is there trouble in the house that Benioff built? Salesforce.com’s president and chief strategy officer, Steve Cakebread, has resigned and reports say two other vice presidents have also left the fold, possibly in layoffs. In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Feb. 5, the SAAS (software as a service) provider founded […]

Opera Software has announced it is at work on a new JavaScript engine named Carakan (pronounced Tsharakan) that is two-and-a-half times faster than the JavaScript engine in Opera 10. Opera developers and testers have been working on Carakan for the past few months and intend to make it the fastest JavaScript engine on the planet, […]

Intridea, a Web 2.0 development firm, has taken its enterprise blogging application, Present.ly, mobile with native clients for Windows Mobile, the Apple iPhone, BlackBerry and Google Android. Intridea, which focuses on agile development of Web applications using Ruby and Ruby on Rails, has delivered open-source native clients for several of the most popular mobile platforms […]

Palmisano’s Top 15 Moves to Keep IBM Growing In the last decade, IBM has focused its growth strategy on faster-growing, higher-profit operations. IBM named Sam Palmisano president and chief operating officer in 2000 before he became Louis Gerstner’s successor as CEO of IBM in 2002. Here’s a snapshot of some of Sam Palmisano’s big moves […]

OASIS announced Feb. 5 that its members have approved new versions of nine Web services specifications as OASIS standards. The nine standards fall into the WS-RX (WS Reliable Exchange), WS-TX (WS Transactions) and WS-SX (WS Secure Exchange) families of specifications-three standards in each category. The WS-RX, WS-TX and WS-SX standards support reliable message exchange, coordinate […]

The World Wide Web Consortium on Feb. 3 released a report on the future of social networking, citing the need for an interoperable distributed social Web framework. Participants in the W3C’s Workshop on the Future of Social Networking, including Yahoo Research, Flock, Nokia, Samsung, IBM, Eli Lilly and YouTube, made a number of observations in […]

AgileIT has delivered a beta release of its ServiceLayer technology, which is a run-time Java framework that enables users to dynamically add Web services to an existing Java application using a point-and-click interface. Mark Hansen, founder of AgileIT, said ServiceLayer solves systems integration challenges by making Web services implementation projects fast and easy. The current […]

Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu Linux, and analyst firm RedMonk have released findings of a survey sent to thousands of Ubuntu users that show usage patterns for the Ubuntu server product. In an interview with eWEEK about the results of the Ubuntu user survey, Steve George, director of support and services for Canonical, said […]