Darryl K. Taft

Two key players in the application lifecycle management space are delivering tools for software configuration management and for requirements management. Serena Software, of San Mateo, Calif., on Oct. 9 released a new lightweight, Web-based SCM (software configuration management) tool. Meanwhile, Detroit-based Compuware released a new version of its Optimal Trace requirements management tool. Serenas Dimensions […]

Services company Capgemini is launching its Rapid Design and Visualization Lab designed to help software organizations cut development costs by up to 50 percent. Paris-based Capgemini designed the lab based on the expertise of technologists and behaviorists and unveiled the RDV Lab in Chicago Oct. 8 following a 12-month beta period during which four clients […]

ORLANDO—Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer laid off on rhetoric about Linux and open source, instead taking on Google and the opportunity that search, advertising and computing in the cloud represents for the software giant. Speaking in a staged question-and-answer session with analysts at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2007 here Oct. 10, Ballmer addressed what appeared to […]

SAPs $6.78 billion acquisition of Business Objects is a win-win for both companies, said the leaders of the two organizations in a news conference Oct. 8. SAP CEO Henning Kagermann said the two companies are “very complementary” and added that overlap between them is small. “Forty percent of our clients are also Business Objects clients,” […]

Ive long been interested in the concept of aspect-oriented programming, so I checked in with one of the guys known for his involvement in the creation of the technology, Gregor Kiczales. Kiczales is now on the faculty at the University of British Columbia but was a leader in creating AOP during his time at the […]

The Father of AOP Gregor Kiczales, a force in the creation of aspect-oriented programming, spoke with eWEEK Senior Editor Darryl K. Taft about the history and future of AOP. Where did aspect-oriented programming come from? What is it? If you look at the evolution from machine code to procedures like Algol and Pascal, to objects […]

Adam Bosworth is on the move again. Bosworth, whose last known position was as a vice president at Google, left the search giant and posted a blog entry Oct. 6 dropping hints at what he is up to now. He said the entrepreneurial bug has hit him again, and he is “dusting off” his engineering […]

Microsoft is continuing its thrust to help developers write more secure and better quality code. The Redmond, Wash., software company is putting new code analysis features into the next version of its development tools suite, Visual Studio 2008. In Visual Studio 2005, the company integrated a couple of static analysis tools—FxCop and PREfast into the […]

Microsoft is willing to show its code but doesnt want anyone touching it. Scott Guthrie, general manager of the Microsoft .Net Framework in Microsofts Developer Division, said that based on customer and developer feedback, Microsoft is releasing the reference source code availability for the .Net Framework under the Microsoft Reference License to give developers the […]

CHICAGO—Adobe Systems showed off new and upcoming technology that will take the company into new areas and propel it further along in areas where it competes with key industry players. At its Adobe Max 2007 conference here on Oct. 2, Adobe chief software architect Kevin Lynch, laid out the companies plans for delivering new technology […]

Adobe Systems is buying Virtual Ubiquity, a move company officials said is a key step to creating a rich Internet applications environment based on its Adobe Integrated Runtime platform. Virtual Ubiquity, of Waltham, Mass., is known for its online word processor, Buzzword. The product is based on Adobe technology, including AIR, Adobe Flex software and […]

Adobe Takes Competition to the Max”> CHICAGO—Adobe Systems is looking to expand its competition with titans such as Microsoft and Google by entering into new areas, including word processing and document sharing, and bolstering its positions in other areas. At its annual Max 2007 users conference here Oct. 1, Adobe is expected to announce that […]