Darryl K. Taft

Oracle launched its Oracle OpenWorld conference with a series of SOA-related announcements, including the availability of Oracle SOA Suite 10g Release 3. With service-oriented architecture as one of the themes of the event, Oracle opened the conference on Oct. 23 in San Francisco with this new component of Oracle Fusion Middleware. The new version of […]

BOSTON—Although Microsofts Internet Explorer team has just shipped Version 7 of the browser, it is already working on IE 8—or should that be “IE Next?—said a platform architect on the team. At the AJAX Experience conference here, Chris Wilson, platform architect for the Internet Explorer platform at Microsoft, said, “The team is hard at work […]

BOSTON—America Online, the creator of one of the largest online communities, has done so with the help of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML technology, a company executive said. In a keynote at The AJAX Experience conference here, William Morris, vice president of products and technology, who works at AOLs Silicon Valley campus in Mountain View, Calif., […]

BOSTON—The popular Dojo toolkit for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML can be addictive, the projects leader said. Speaking at The Ajax Experience conference here Oct. 24, Alex Russell, project lead for the Dojo Toolkit and president of the Dojo Foundation, said Dojo “is like crack for Web developers… Its like crack; once you start using it […]

Who wants to be a programmer? Microsoft is hoping everyday folks will take the challenge by using its nonprofessional programming tools, and other vendors are following suit. Microsoft is poised to tap the nascent market for development tools to enable nonprofessionals to create applications, having established a team specifically built for this push and planning […]

Microsoft released Oct. 20 the first beta of its AJAX tool, ASP.Net AJAX, formerly known as Atlas, making it available under three download options. The first option is the ASP.Net AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) v1.0 “Core” download, which contains the features that will be supported by Microsoft Product Support and includes support for the […]

Not to be outdone by Microsofts news of a new hire to help implement Ruby on .Net, Sun Microsystems has made its own Ruby announcement regarding recent hires. Sun announced that on Oct. 20, the JRuby team released JRuby 0.9.1 and is continuing work toward version 1.0. Sun hired the chief maintainers of JRuby, Thomas […]

Oracle opened its Oracle OpenWorld conference with a series of SOA-related announcements, including the availability of Oracle SOA Suite 10g Release 3. With service-oriented architecture as one of the themes of the event, Oracle opened the conference on Oct. 23 in San Francisco with the new component of Oracle Fusion Middleware. The new version of […]

Microsoft has beefed up its efforts to make dynamic languages play well on the .Net platform with the hire of John Lam, an expert in the Ruby language. John Lam is the creator of the RubyCLR bridge between the Ruby language and the Microsoft CLR (Common Language Runtime). He will be joining Microsoft in January, […]

Who wants to be a programmer? Microsoft is hoping everyday folks will take the challenge by using its non-professional programming tools, and other vendors are following suit. Microsoft is poised to tap the nascent market for development tools to enable non-professionals to create applications, having established a team specifically built for this push and planning […]

SavaJe Technologies, once the darling of the Java devices community, is now looking at bad times and struggling to keep its doors open. SavaJe, based in Chelmsford, Mass., makes Java operating systems for cell phones and was selected as the vendor with the showcase technology at JavaOne last May. Now the company is close to […]

When JPMorgan Chase Traders go to their terminals for ready access to market data, pricing, research and analysis, they can count on using applications built with the Eclipse development platform. JPMorgan developers selected Eclipse largely for its RCP (Rich Client Platform) technology, which enabled the international financial powerhouse to build an internal development system known […]