Darryl K. Taft

I try to stay away from clichés. But try as you might, sometimes they just fit. Needless to say, the rumors of the mainframes demise have been greatly exaggerated. Thats right, I said it. The mainframe is on my mind because the winter version of the semiannual Share conference of IBM mainframe users ran last […]

A recent Evans Data Corp. survey shows that developers in emerging markets are increasingly hopping onto the open-source wave and including open-source software in the applications they build. According to Evans Datas 2007 Emerging Markets Development Survey, which covers Brazil, Russia and Eastern Europe, India, and China, 69 percent of respondents said they are using […]

NEW YORK—Microsoft is ready to take on the Wall Street service-oriented architecture scene with its latest developer and infrastructure technologies, said a consultant in building IT systems for financial services companies. Michael DeSanti, a partner with Eikos Partners, New York, spoke at the Web Services/SOA on Wall Street conference here and said Microsofts .Net Framework […]

NEW YORK—WebMethods and ZapThink have partnered to offer educational services for IT staff looking to become proficient in service-oriented architecture. ZapThink, based in Baltimore, and WebMethods, based in Fairfax, Va., have banded together to launch the SOA Master Class Online , a comprehensive educational resource that is designed to foster mastery of SOA concepts, techniques […]

Borland Software announced enhancements to its Silk line of integrated testing and quality management products. Brad Johnson, director of product management for life cycle products at Borland, said Borlands LQM (Lifecycle Quality Management) solution is “one of the four key segments” of the companys recently announced Open ALM (application lifecycle management) strategy, which focuses on […]

Genuitec is helping to bridge the worlds of Java and Microsoft Visual Studio development with its new Simple Non-integrated Applications tools for Sun Microsystems NetBeans and for Visual Studio. Genuitec, of Flower Mound, Texas, announced the availability of new SNAPs “Use-Anywhere” connectors for the NetBeans and Visual Studio IDEs (integrated development environments). The new offerings […]

Slide, Marc, slide! Marc Fleury, the ostentatious one-man show who helped make JBoss into an entity that could command a $350 million price tag, announced last week that he was hanging up his cleats and leaving Red Hat, the company he sold out to last April. Fleury once told me he was the P. Diddy […]

To some, Windows Vista is Microsofts most secure operating system ever. To others, its the most Mac-like. But from a developer standpoint, its the first proving ground for Microsofts new family of managed programming interfaces that have been under development for the past five years. As far back as October 2003 at the Microsoft Professional […]

Marc Fleury, the fiery, open-source software entrepreneur who launched a thriving business around providing support for open-source technology, has decided to leave JBoss, the company he founded. JBoss is a division of Red Hat. Fleury went on paternity leave in December, following the birth of his fourth child, and said he would return to work […]

Microsoft has issued new architectural guidance for organizations looking to implement software as a service systems. On Feb. 8, Microsoft announced its new architectural guidance in the form of a sample application, said Tim OBrien, director of platform strategy at Microsoft. The Microsoft sample SAAS application is known as LitwareHR, a fictitious human resources application […]

JBoss, a division of Red Hat, has announced the appointment of Bob McWhirter as the new technical leader for the JBoss.org open-source community. McWhirter, who founded the Codehaus open-source project repository, will be responsible for evolving the technical infrastructure and content of the JBoss.org site for a growing community of contributors and users as well […]

When it comes to software development, Googles Adam Bosworth has a need for speed. In a talk at Googles offices here Jan. 29, Bosworth, vice president of engineering at Google, outlined why technologies such as AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), PDAs and natural language failed to catch on in the past but are successful today. […]