Darryl K. Taft

Active Endpoints, which makes SOA orchestration solutions, is rolling out ActiveBPEL for People, a product that adds workflow and human interaction capabilities to the companys ActiveBPEL Enterprise servers. Fred Holahan, founder and chairman of Active Endpoints, of Shelton, Conn., said the company based its technology on the emerging BPEL4People specifications, which bring the human element […]

IBM is looking to ride its leadership position in the enterprise portal space into a similar position in the Enterprise 2.0 arena, where Web 2.0 technologies intersect with the enterprise. IBM on July 20 announced that research firm IDC had named IBM the leader in the enterprise portal space market for the fifth consecutive year. […]

With its comparatively young developer work force, the Asia Pacific region has three times more developers focusing on game development than North America. According to a recent study by Evans Data Corp., 10 percent of developers in the Asia Pacific region are working on computer games. The Evans survey featured responses from nearly 400 developers, […]

In Part II of a two-part interview, Irving Wladawsky-Berger speaks with eWEEK Senior Editor Darryl K. Taft to share his thoughts on his career, the future of the industry and other issues including healthcare, energy and the war on terror. Along the way, what do you think has been the biggest obstacle that you or […]

In Part I of a two-part interview, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, IBMs visionary leader behind many of the companys moves into new technology and business areas, has retired to a part-time role with IBM and teaching. However, before scaling back his role last month, Wladawsky-Berger spoke with eWEEK Senior Editor Darryl K. Taft to share his thoughts […]

How do you say goodbye to a legend? Well, if youre IBM, you dont. You just let them “retire” and you continue to tap their expertise on a part-time basis. Thats what IBM is doing with Irving Wladawsky-Berger, the companys just-retired vice president of technical strategy and innovation. Wladawsky-Berger just retired in June after 37 […]

Mike Milinkovich heads the Eclipse Foundation, the industry consortium that maintains the open-source Eclipse application development platform. IBM spun Eclipse out as an independent entity in February 2004, and the organization hired Milinkovich as executive director later that year. Milinkovich, who is based in Ottawa, spoke with Senior Editor Darryl K. Taft about his tenure […]

Dan Cahoon was looking for a way to streamline staffing operations at tax company H&R Block, the nations largest seasonal employer. Rather than use traditional desktop-based software for the job, the senior systems architect at H&R Block was able to deliver SOA-connected AJAX portlets to more than 12,000 branch offices for temporary work spaces to […]

Virtualization has proved itself in the data center, where companies are deploying the technology as a way to consolidate hardware, save on power and cooling costs, and enhance disaster recovery capabilities. Now, industry observers say, virtualization will play a key role in the growing SOA (service-oriented architecture) movement. In fact, David Greschler, director of integrated […]

Oracles new 11g database is not only a boon for database administrators, but also for developers, said the database giant. Oracle, based in Redwood Shores, Calif., announced its Oracle 11g database product at a launch event in New York on July 11, touting its benefits for users and DBAs. But the product also features a […]

At its Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft has launched and enhanced a series of initiatives to help ISVs (independent software vendors) do more with Microsoft technology. One of these efforts is around Office Business Applications, also known as OBAs. Microsoft launched its OBA OnRamp Program at the show. Microsoft defines OBA as a new breed of […]

Although large commercial vendors made early strides into the market for SOA software, open-source components are rapidly finding their way into the picture. Vendors such as Iona Technologies, Red Hat, MuleSource, WSO2, Sun Microsystems and even IBM are pushing open-source components as key pieces of service-oriented architecture implementations. To solidify its move into the open-source […]