Darryl K. Taft

BEA Systems and Adobe Systems have teamed up to deliver a new development environment for rich internet applications and server technologies to automate infrastructure for document processes. At BEAs BEAWorld conference in San Francisco on Sept. 11, the companies announced that they have signed an agreement across four products in their respective portfolios and will […]

Facebook : An Open Book for Developers”> Adam DAngelo, chief technology officer at Palo Alto, Calif.-based Facebook, is charged with overseeing the development of new applications, maintaining existing ones and ensuring that the overall platform can continue to scale to meet the needs of an ever growing user base for the wildly popular social networking […]

PALO ALTO, Calif.—The first and main thing I wanted to learn on my visit to Facebook headquarters here was how the social networking juggernaut was going to take on the enterprise. It seemed the company had the consumer segment licked and was inevitably headed for the enterprise before bigger, more established competitors stepped in. But […]

Serena Software on Sept. 10 is officially announcing the launch of its Serena Mashup Composer, formerly codenamed “Vail,” for the point-and-click creation of business mashups. The San Mateo, Calif., company announced and demonstrated its new technology at its Serena xChange 2007 Conference in Chicago in August, where company CEO Jeremy Burton gave a keynote that […]

BEA Systems has instituted a new pricing model for its virtualization offering and is looking at other opportunities including appliances for service oriented architecture, company officials said. With its WebLogic Server Virtual Edition, BEA, which is based in San Jose, Calif., is introducing a new pricing model for enterprise Java virtualization, said Mark Prichard, BEAs […]

Silverlight in the Moonlight “> Microsoft on Sept. 5 is expected to release to the Web Silverlight 1.0, a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering richer user experiences on the Web. In addition, the Redmond, Wash., software maker has announced that it will work with Novell to deliver Silverlight support for Linux, an effort dubbed “Moonlight” […]

MuleSource has launched MuleForge, a collaborative development site for Mule extensions and applications built by the Mule community and MuleSource partners. San Francisco-based MuleSource provides open-source infrastructure and integration software around the open-source Mule ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) and integration platform. MuleForge provides a platform where developers can explore, download, test, and contribute to a […]

The SOA Consortium, a group of vendors and other organizations aimed at promoting the use of service-oriented architecture, is continuing to grow, with 31 new members joining since May 1. The additions bring the total number of participants to more than 50 in the less than six months since the group started. The SOA Consortium, […]

Despite the best laid plans of colleges and universities, there remains a skills gap between what computer science graduates learn in their undergraduate years and what they need to become proficient in a typical at-work environment. In short, many people on both sides of the equation—teachers as well as potential employers—say the educational system is […]

Google has updated a couple of its developer-oriented tools, the Google Web Toolkit for creating Web applications and Google Gears technology for enabling offline access to services. Google announced the release of GWT 1.4, which enables Java developers to build Web applications without getting into the gobbledygook of AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) development. Google […]

Developers in the EMEA region—Europe, Middle East and Africa—have increased their use of Microsofts C#, according to a recent survey by Evans Data. The number of developers using C# has increased 40 percent during the last year in EMEA, the Evans Data survey showed. In 2006 the number of developers using C# any part of […]

Software Quality in the City by the Bay”> Quality software is not to be taken for granted in the city by the bay. While San Francisco and the “bay area” have long been associated with the software business, Im talking about a city near another bay: the Chesapeake Bay. Im talking about Baltimore, the place […]