Darryl K. Taft

Researchers at Brown University have created a new programming language for developing Web applications, known as Flapjax. Flapjax is a new twist on AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) style development that is based on JavaScript, said Shriram Krishnamurthi, a computer science professor at Brown who is leading the project. The new language makes AJAX-style development […]

Black Duck Software has announced exportIP, a new software compliance tool that helps organizations ensure that their software products do not violate government restrictions regarding encryption export. Waltham, Mass.-based Black Duck announced its new offering at the Update 2006 Conference on Export Controls and Policy on Oct. 16. The Update 2006 conference runs Oct. 15-17 […]

Port80 Software, a Microsoft partner, has released a new survey showing that the Microsoft Internet Information Services 6 Web server has overtaken the Apache open-source Web server among Fortune 1000 Web sites. In the survey released on Oct. 11, Port80 Software said IIS 6 more than doubled its market share over the last year, to […]

NEW YORK—If you are contemplating a PC purchase but concerned about waiting for Windows Vista, dont wait, said Microsoft officials at the DigitalLife conference here. G. Michael Sievert, corporate vice president of Windows Client marketing at Microsoft, opened the DigitalLife conference on Oct. 12 with a keynote in which he laid out the companys plans […]

Formerly noncommittal Microsoft has come out swinging in relation to Adobe Systems with a video that compares Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2005 to Adobe’s Dreamweaver 8. However, it’s something of an apples-to-pears or an oranges-to-lemons comparison, in that Visual Studio is an all-purpose integrated development environment and Dreamweaver, although it has IDE capabilities, is primarily known […]

Borland software announced Lifecycle Quality Management on Oct. 2, signifying an effort to enable enterprises to build quality into every facet of an applications development process. Rob Cheng, director of developer solutions at the Cupertino, Calif., company, said Borlands LQM solution will mean that quality is tested far more frequently in the development process, from […]

IBM announced that it will make another round of technology contributions to the open-source community to promote the use of Web 2.0 technologies in the enterprise. At the AJAXWorld conference in Santa Clara, Calif., on Oct. 4, IBM officials said the systems giant will make additional contributions to the Eclipse Foundations ATF (AJAX Technology Framework) […]

Serena Software announced that it has agreed to acquire Pacific Edge Software, a maker of project and portfolio management software. Serena, based in San Mateo, Calif., builds ALM (application lifecycle management) software. The company announced its intent to acquire Bellevue, Wash.-based Pacific Edge on Oct. 4. The companies did not disclose the financial terms of […]

Oracle has announced enhanced support for the Spring Framework in the way of integration with the new Spring 2.0 release. Oracle, based in Redwood Shores, Calif., announced on Oct. 3 that it has provided integration of TopLink Essentials, the open-source EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans) 3.0 Java Persistence API (JPA) reference implementation, with the latest Spring Framework […]

Although technologists have been calling for the marriage of hot technologies such as SOAs and AJAX to help users better leverage Web services, the industry is only now beginning to see products that fully support this integration. At the AJAXWorld conference in Santa Clara, Calif., starting Oct. 2, JackBe and TIBCO Software are unveiling initiatives […]

Interface21 is expected to release the bits for the next major revision of the popular Spring Framework on Oct. 3. London-based Interface21 will release Spring 2.0 in the wee hours of the morning U.S. time, and the company also plans to announce a new hire to bolster its U.S. operations. Interface21 is the company behind […]

Borland Software announced Borland Lifecycle Quality Management Oct. 2, in an effort to enable enterprises to build quality into every facet of an applications development process. Rob Cheng, director of developer solution at the Cupertino, Calif., company, said the new Borland LQM solution will mean that quality is tested for more frequently in the development […]