Darryl K. Taft

The Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 6 specification is back, and with it will be a lot of flexibility for developers. A Sun Microsystems-led group initially trotted out a Java EE 6 specification to the JCP (Java Community Process) in early April and then withdrew it 10 days later. That specification was known as Java Specification […]

A new area of interest for me is that of women in computing. Indeed, among the stock questions I now often ask “leaders” in the industry is: “What can be done to get more women interested in technology?” With that in mind, I went to the Women in Technology luncheon at Microsofts TechEd conference in […]

Apples iPhone may come with numerous features for consumers, but for developers, it offers limited customization options. The movers behind the OpenMoko open-source project, announced in November 2006, want to offer those developers an alternative with unlimited customization. Sean Moss-Pultz, architect of OpenMoko and product manager of the Mobile Communication Business Unit at FIC (First […]

NEW YORK—New specifications for Web Services Business Process Execution Language will enable organizations using BPEL to support human involvement in the orchestration of Web services interactions. A group of vendors, including Active Endpoints, Adobe, BEA Systems, IBM, Oracle and SAP, announced June 25 the publication of “BPEL4People” specifications, which define an approach for integrating human […]

The Eclipse Foundation plans to release its second officially sanctioned release train of open-source projects, known as Europa, June 29. Europa will comprise 21 Eclipse projects, said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Ottawa-based Eclipse Foundation. Europa is the second annual release train—or simultaneous release—of Eclipse projects. Last year, Eclipse delivered 10 projects in a […]

NEW YORK—Black Duck Software, a maker of software compliance management solutions, this fall plans to introduce a product designed to help with SOA development in the enterprise. Doug Levin, chief executive of Black Duck, based in Waltham, Mass., said the company is working on a technology that helps protect intellectual property as enterprises move to […]

Whats in a benchmark? Typically, its whatever the testing party darn well pleases. Benchmarks can be made to look like any other statistical data—you can manipulate things to say what you want them to. Not so in the case of Microsofts .Net StockTrader application, which the software giant used to test the performance of a […]

Microsoft is partnering with publishing house Houghton Mifflin to better enable students to learn using Web-based resources. At the 2007 National Educational Computing Conference June 25 in Atlanta, Microsoft and HMLT (Houghton Mifflin Learning Technology), a Boston-based division of Houghton Mifflin, announced a partnership to make it easier for pre-K—12 and higher-education students, parents, teachers […]

Borland Software beat out its competition to be named the top source control management software provider in a recent survey. According to the June 19 survey, conducted by Evans Data, Borland won out over competitors such as Microsoft, IBM Rational, Serena Software and open-source vendors. Developers responding to the Evans survey chose Borlands StarTeam as […]

IBM and Microsoft are among a growing number of players looking to introduce technology to link consumer-style Web 2.0 capabilities with enterprise solutions. At the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston on June 19, IBM is launching its version of collaborative Web-based technology designed to access the individual and collective wisdom of professionals so that it […]

IBM is entering the stream computing arena. In a keynote address at the 2007 Technology Management Conference and Expo in New York on June 19, William Zeitler, senior vice president and group executive for IBMs Systems and Technology Group is introducing its System S prototype. System S is a software architecture that originated in IBM […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—Though IBM is often viewed as a stodgy old technology giant focused primarily on delivering old-school solutions for big, plodding enterprises, the company continues to churn out new ideas and technologies that many never see. When I think IBM, I typically think mainframe, COBOL, CICS, SOA (service-oriented architecture), Web services, Java middleware and Linux. […]