Darryl K. Taft

Microsoft has released the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Ecosystem Readiness Program as part of its effort to prepare its partners for the availability of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Launched on Feb. 2, the Ecosystem Readiness Program provides the tools and resources partners need to begin testing their existing applications, […]

According to a recent Evans Data survey, although the recession may be impacting some elements of the IT industry, it is not having much, if any, impact on the market for developing applications for wireless devices. The results of the survey show that 94 percent of corporate developers expect the development of wireless enterprise applications […]

IBM continues to lay off employees and to take heat from employee groups for its practice of not providing more information such as exact numbers or other particulars on the layoffs. The word is IBM has eliminated nearly 5,000 positions since the action began in January, according to sources. An IBM employee organization called Alliance@IBM […]

The Ruby on Rails community has delivered a Release Candidate version of the next major release of the popular Web development framework Ruby on Rails, Ruby on Rails 2.3 RC 1. In a blog post from Feb. 1, David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of the open-source Ruby on Rails technology, said: “Rails 2.3 is almost […]

Adobe Systems announced at its Adobe MAX Japan conference that the company’s Adobe AIR and Adobe Flash Player 10 software, key components of the Adobe Flash Platform, have been installed by record numbers of users and enterprises, to the tune of more than 100 million installations for Adobe AIR. On Jan. 29 at the Adobe […]

REDMOND, Wash. — For the most effective service-oriented architecture implementations, enterprises should unify enterprise architecture with SOA and business process management, so said Gartner Research analyst Nick Gall in a broad how-to discussion on SOA at the 2009 Microsoft SOA and Business Process Conference here. Gall, who is a vice president at Gartner, spoke on […]

REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft kicked off its 2009 SOA and Business Process Conference here by attempting to debunk some of the myths related to service-oriented architecture. Steven Martin, senior director of product management in Microsoft’s Developer Division, started out by addressing the issue of SOA’s relevance, as the discussion in the industry over the last […]

REDMOND, Wash.-With a core focus of Microsoft’s SOA and Business Process Conference here identified as “Real World SOA,” Microsoft called on three enterprise customers to discuss their efforts to deploy service-oriented architecture. The enterprise customers were Chevron, McDonald’s and Boeing. Thomas Cogswell, engineering manager for Boeing Research and Technology, said Boeing runs some 5,600 applications […]

Microsoft Asks: Is SOA Myth or Money? by Darryl Taftslides courtesy of Microsoft Debunking the SOA Myths Microsoft’s Steven Martin sets out to debunk some of the more common myths about SOA (service-oriented architecture). The Myths of SOA Evolve Like Bigfoot, unicorns, the Loch Ness Monster and Al Gore inventing the Internet, some SOA myths […]

With cloud computing driving the need for queuing and Enterprise Service Bus style services in the cloud, Freedom OSS has introduced cloudMQ, which the company refers to as a Message Queuing as a Service solution. According to Joel Davne, CEO of Freedom OSS, cloudMQ is a simple way to start exploring integration of messaging into […]

Layoffs continue at IBM, particularly in the company’s software and sales and distribution groups, where more than 2,800 people have been let go over the last week, with several more expected to be laid off over the next several days in other parts of the company, sources said According to an organization called Alliance@IBM, IBM […]

Red Hat’s JBoss division has released the 1.0 version of JBoss RESTEasy, a framework that enables developers to write Representational State Transfer-based — also known as “RESTful” — Web services in Java. JBoss fellow Bill Burke has been championing the effort and crowed about the technology achieving a version 1.0 generally available release on Jan. […]