Darryl K. Taft

Borland Software is going full bore into agile software development. On Aug. 6 at the Agile 2008 conference in Toronto, Pete Morowski, Borland’s senior vice president of research and development, is scheduled to present a session entitled “Driving Agile Transformation from the Top Down.” In an interview with eWEEK, Morowski said that “at agile’s core […]

VersionOne and Danube Technologies are rolling out products to support agile development environments. At the Agile 2008 show in Toronto Aug. 5, VersionOne announced the availability of an open-source integration between its V1: Agile project management tools and Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2008. The company also announced its support for Visual Studio 2008. VersionOne’s integration […]

If you mix the best of agile with the best of what open-source development has to offer, you’re looking at a recipe for a successful software development experience. Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, essentially said as much in a packed session at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention recently. His words were timely, as the Agile […]

With the release of Version 4.1 of the KDE Linux desktop July 29, the KDE community made statements on several fronts, including advanced cross-platform support and overall improvements in the look and feel of the GUI. In an interview with eWEEK, Adriaan de Groot, vice president of KDE e.V., the nonprofit organization that represents the […]

Sun Microsystems is rolling out the preview release of JavaFX, its rich client platform for building rich Internet applications. Sun made the announcement July 31 and made the JavaFX Preview release available here. The JavaFX Preview release provides Web scripters, designers and Java developers with a preview of the runtime and tools needed to create […]

Open-source community developers have been awash in news this summer, particularly the past few weeks surrounding the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, July 21-25 in Portland, Ore. Sun Microsystems on July 23 announced the availability of the Sun Web Stack, an integrated enterprise-quality AMP (Apache/MySQL/Perl or PHP) stack for Solaris and Linux operating systems. The Web […]

NEW YORK-Adobe’s Flash is the dominant rich Internet application platform and the company is counting on its lead there to keep competitors like Microsoft at bay, as the RIA wars heat up. In a meeting with eWEEK at Adobe’s offices here on July 30, Adrian Ludwig, group manager of product marketing in the Adobe Platform […]

Microsoft has a post-Windows operating system in the works, and it is code-named Midori, sources say. What’s in it for developers? David Worthington over at SD Times has gained access to the details of an integral post-Windows operating system the software giant has been working on. The project is so important that Microsoft tapped Eric […]

In the first annual survey of its membership and other open-source software and services companies, the OSA (Open Solutions Alliance) found that the stagnant economy may be helping to push open-source adoption. In a survey of more than 100 of its member organizations, the OSA found that 83 percent said they expect to see a […]

Aptana, which makes tools for the development and deployment of Web applications, is adding two Web application gurus to the company. On July 27, Aptana CEO Paul Colton posted a blog entry stating that two AJAX experts have joined Aptana to work on the company’s Jaxer, server-side AJAX development environment. Wrote Colton: ““We are pleased […]

IBM has announced its plans to acquire Ilog, a maker of business rules software and more, in a transaction valued at $340 million. IBM officials said upon completion of the deal, IBM will combine its business process management (BPM), business optimization, and service oriented architecture (SOA) technologies with Ilog’s Business Rules Management Systems (BRMS) software. […]

IBM Corp. is expected to announce on July 29 that it will increase product lifecycle management (PLM) resources and investments to help companies manage product development complexity and fine-tune global product launch operations. To help support PLM’s integration as a core set of enterprise applications, IBM is actively tapping into its global network of more […]