Darryl K. Taft

PORTLAND, Ore.-Don’t complain about your situation; do something about it. That’s the gist of what Danese Cooper, senior director of open-source strategies at Intel, said in her keynote at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention here. Cooper said her talk, titled “Why Whinging Doesn’t Work,” was initially written for women, and she gave a version of […]

PORTLAND, Ore.-Once again, Microsoft has used the O’Reilly Open Source Convention as a venue to make a key announcement about the company’s involvement with open-source initiatives. In 2007, Microsoft announced that it had submitted a license to the OSI (Open Source Initiative) for approval. This year Microsoft is unveiling moves in three areas, including becoming […]

PORTLAND, Ore.-Microsoft officials are continuing to push their open-source IronRuby effort to deliver an implementation of Ruby that runs on the .Net Framework, making several announcements July 24 at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention here. John Lam, head of the IronRuby effort, said Microsoft will ship all standard Ruby libraries that are implemented in the […]

PORTLAND, Ore. — A coalition of individuals and corporate backers are creating the Open Web Foundation, an attempt to create a home for community-driven specifications following the open-source model similar to the Apache Software Foundation. The group was announced July 24 here at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention. Geir Magnusson, an ASF director, who was […]

PORTLAND, Ore.-Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Canonical, which maintains the Ubuntu desktop Linux distribution, said he doubts Microsoft would file a suit against a free software developer unless the software giant wants “war.” At the end of a session at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention here on July 24, where Shuttleworth discussed the emerging practice […]

Is Microsoft irrelevant? That’s what Brian Aker, director of architecture at Sun Microsystems’ MySQL, called the software giant in an onstage Q&A during the opening day of keynotes and sessions at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention here July 23. Aker’s response came to a question from O’Reilly Media CEO Tim O’Reilly, who asked Aker and […]

PORTLAND, Ore.-Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, which makes Ubuntu Linux, called for desktop Linux to improve to the point that its presentation layer is more visually exciting than Apple’s. During a talk at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention here July 22, Shuttleworth issued a final challenge to open-source developers before he left the stage. “The […]

PORTLAND, Ore.-Black Duck Software and Intel are the latest vendors to make substantial improvements to their open-source development tools, the latest indicators of the open-source movement’s growing presence in the application development field. Black Duck, which offers products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open-source software, announced July 22 the […]

Can a $5 iPod-like device help change the world and substitute for the Internet where the Net does not exist? PORTLAND, Ore. — Cliff Schmidt is a man on a mission — a mission to help stamp out illiteracy. And his weapon of choice in this battle is a $5 iPod-like device that he says […]

Terracotta, which makes infrastructure software for enterprise Java scalability, is providing core technology to deliver high reliability and scalability to Adobe’s ConnectNow Web conferencing service in Acrobat.com. By using Terracotta’s high-performance redundant cache in runtime state rather than a database, ConnectNow provides service for a high volume of Web meetings and activity, while enabling seamless […]

Although browser fragmentation is an issue on the desktop, nowhere is it more of a concern than in the mobile and wireless space. A panel of experts spoke on the issue of browser fragmentation and its impact on the mobile and wireless space at a meeting of the NYSIA (New York Software Industry Association) on […]

NEW YORK — The mobile market offers vast and varied opportunities for developers, with platforms such as Nokia’s Symbian, Windows Mobile and Linux-based technologies vying for developer mindshare. However, as a group of leaders at a recent meeting of the NYSIA (New York Software Industry Association) here said, developers are most likely to go to […]