Darryl K. Taft

NEW YORK — In a session billed as the browser wars up close and personal, key Microsoft, Mozilla and Google representatives spoke about the past present and future of the browser platform as they see it. In the session at the Web 2.0 Expo here on Sept. 19, entitled “The Future of Browsers,” Chris Wilson, […]

NEW YORK – Underscoring the importance of the financial sector in the push to take high performance computing mainstream, Microsoft announced the release to manufacturing of its latest entry into the HPC arena, Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008, at the High Performance on Wall Street conference here. “Today we’re announcing the availability of Windows HPC […]

NEW YORK — Although a relational database management system is what most developers are used to working with, you’re not likely to use one in the cloud, a cloud computing expert said as he listed the strengths and weaknesses of various cloud computing options. Speaking at the Web 2.0 Expo here, Geir Magnusson, vice president […]

Amazon.com’s Amazon Web Services group has announced that the company will be delivering a content delivery service. Adam Selipsky, vice president of product management and developer relations for Amazon Web Services, said the new service will provide organizations with a high performance method of distributing content to end users, giving customers low latency and high […]

Microsoft is beginning to shed a little light on what we can expect to see in the next version of Visual Studio, which has thus far been referred to as Visual Studio 10 or VS10. MJF has a post on it based on a blog entry from Jeffrey Schlimmer, a Microsoft engineer who attended the […]

New Relic, maker of application performance management software for Ruby on Rails environments, has announced a new free version of its performance monitoring solution, as well as new features to its enterprise version. New Relic announced Rails Performance Management Lite, a free, supported performance monitoring product that helps developers and application managers optimize production Rails […]

At the Zend PHP Conference 2008, also known as ZendCon, Zend Technologies and Adobe Systems announced plans to collaborate to make Zend’s PHP technologies work better with Adobe’s user experience technologies. At the event being held Sept. 15-18 in Santa Clara, Calif., the two companies said they will collaborate to make Zend’s PHP tools play […]

Oracle has announced the availability of Oracle Communications Converged Application Server 4.0 Oracle Communications Converged Application Server 4.0 provides high levels of availability and reliability through clustering, replication and geographic redundancy. This enables service providers to eliminate single points of failure, in case of catastrophic failures in one or more nodes in their telecommunications networks. […]

In light of continuing and progressively more pernicious security threats heading into the application stack, Microsoft is evolving its Security Development Lifecycle and providing services, support and tools around it to help enterprises build more secure applications starting at the design and development phase. Steve Lipner, Microsoft’s senior director of security engineering strategy, said the […]

In the first software and services release related to its acquisition of Cognos, IBM has announced a blended human capital management services and software offering that helps customers more effectively analyze key work force trends and metrics to get the most from their talent investment. The new offering provides human resource officers with easy access […]

A recent survey indicates that investment in .NET-based enterprise applications is now outpacing investment in Java-based enterprise applications. Of course, no survey is 100 percent reliable, but what is interesting about this survey is it is not sponsored by Microsoft. CA sponsored the survey, which was conducted by Evans Data. The survey targeted enterprises with […]

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, announced the creation of the World Wide Web Foundation-an organization aimed at bringing the Web to all people. The World Wide Web Foundation’s mission, according to Berners-Lee, is threefold: to advance one Web that is free and open; to expand the Web’s capability and robustness; and […]