Darryl K. Taft

Aptana has announced the incorporation of the Ruby Development Team project into the Aptana integrated development environment. San Francisco-based Aptana announced its latest move at the SDforum Ruby Conference in San Francisco on April 21, said Paul Colton, founder and CEO of Aptana. In addition to incorporating RDT into the Aptana IDE, the company also […]

Microsoft is enhancing its BizTalk Server integration platform with a new set of services, acting on the companys strategy of providing software and services as opposed to simply software as a service. As Microsoft faces increasing competition from SAAS providers such as Salesforce.com and companies offering computing in the cloud, such as Google, the Redmond, […]

SnapLogic is an open-source project that enables developers to easily and rapidly integrate applications and other data sources through Data Integration Networks. I met with Chris Marino and Molly Morelock, SnapLogics CEO and director of programs, respectively, about a month ago in San Francisco, and they werent ready to show their technology, but we had […]

Two former JBoss and Red Hat developers have left the fold to form their own startup focused on demand generation. Roy Russo and Tom Elrod opened the doors to LoopFuse LLC on April 16. LoopFuse is the enterprise-grade, open-source alternative to demand generation, offering marketing and sales organizations the ability to generate leads from their […]

Red Hats JBoss division is planning to move in June to a model similar to that used by RHEL/Fedora model, said sources close to the company. The move would mean that JBoss would deliver a Fedora-like community edition of its core software that only looks forward. As with the Fedora Linux project, no backward compatibility […]

Google has released a new tool to help developers more easily access data feeds. The Google AJAX Feed API simplifies mashup creation for Web developers by providing easy access to public data feeds through JavaScript. Bret Taylor, group manager for developer products at the Mountain, View, Calif., company, said that including feeds in JavaScript mashups […]

Microsoft is prepping a new service from its Developer Division to attract the MySpace.com generation. In a little more than a month, Microsoft is slated to unveil a new effort from the companys Non-Professional Tools Group. John Montgomery, a program manager on the team, has been tasked with coming up with new ways to empower […]

Although the seriousness of the talent shortage in the industry is up for debate, there is no question that many companies that require IT support, particularly software development skills, find it hard to locate sufficient talent in their local market. And many developers find it hard to get work in the regions where they live. […]

Enterprises hoping to take advantage of the growing richness of service-oriented architecture technologies are taking a hard look at Enterprise Service Bus offerings, and vendors are pushing to meet the growing demand. At its MuleCon conference in March, MuleSource hosted several enterprise users of its Mule ESB technology. Meanwhile, Red Hats JBoss division says its […]

Microsoft has given a go-to-market name for its cross-platform, cross-browser plug-in for delivering the next generation of user experiences and rich Internet applications for the Web. The technology formerly known as WPF/E is now known as Silverlight. Microsoft announced Silverlight at the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas on April 16. The NAB […]

Noelios Consulting has announced Version 1.0 of its Noelios Restlet Engine, the reference implementation of the Restlet API 1.0. The Restlet open-source project was launched at the end of 2005 as a Representational State Transfer, or REST, framework for Java. Jerome Louvel, founder and consultant with Noelios, is the creator of the Restlet engine. /zimages/3/28571.gifClick […]

The Apache Software Foundation has accused Sun Microsystems of holding out on a license for a critical Java test kit to protect Suns own commercial interests from open-source competition. In an open letter to Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, Geir Magnusson, vice president of the Apache Harmony project, said Apache has been trying since August 2006 […]