Darryl K. Taft

The OpenAjax Alliance, an open industry group focusing on AJAX, has announced several new members, defined a set of strategic goals and launched its Web site. Jon Ferraiolo, an Armonk, N.Y.,-based IBM engineer and spokesman for the OpenAjax Alliance, said the groups membership has almost doubled since its formation in February. The most recent members […]

Sun Microsystems, along with the NetBeans community and the University of Kent, has announced the general availability of a new version of the NetBeans integrated development environment, the NetBeans IDE/BlueJ Edition. The NetBeans IDE/BlueJ Edition, like the original NetBeans IDE, is a free, open-source IDE. However, the BlueJ Edition is an educational tool that provides […]

Sun Microsystems is moving to make change to the Java Community Process to better enable Java to interoperate with non-Java environments. Onno Kluyt, chair of the JCP, said Sun has proposed a new JSR (Java Specification Request), JSR 306, which will be posted on Sept. 19, to make changes to the JCP. Kluyt said the […]

The Eclipse platform dominated a straw poll on integrated development environments, more than doubling the ranking of the next closest IDE in the survey, Microsofts Visual Studio. The survey on the Tezaa opinion engine site, a community site driven by polls, highlights what many observers have said about the IDE space: that the battle for […]

Evans Data is expected to release soon a study on application servers that shows that developers chose BEA Systems WebLogic server as the No. 1 application server on the market. BEA is expected to play the study result prominently at its BEAWorld conference, which runs Sept. 18-20 in San Francisco, sources said. /zimages/1/28571.gifBEA releases a […]

Jim Allchin, co-president of Microsofts Platforms and Services Division, has sent an open letter to developers citing the “tremendous opportunity” that Windows Vista gives them, adding that the time is now to get ready for the operating system. “If you want to ride the wave were creating with Windows Vista, the best way is to […]

WASHINGTON—IBM has announced new software and business programs to advance the adoption of grid computing. At the GridWorld conference here, which ran from Sept. 11 to 15, IBM announced new software that enables users to migrate their existing technology into virtualized environments. The new software, the Tivoli Dynamic Workload Broker, provides a central point from […]

Yahoo is holding its first public “Hack Day” at the end of September for developers to spend 24 hours building applications around Yahoos APIs. On Sept. 29-30, Yahoo will open up its Sunnyvale, Calif., campus to 500 developers for a free all-day developer workshop, followed by what the company calls a 24-hour “hack-through-the-night” festival that […]

The Portland Group, or PGI, a maker of high-performance compilers and tools, has announced the availability of PGI Visual Fortran, which integrates PGIs technology with Microsofts Visual Studio 2005 tool set. PGI developed PVF to integrate the companys suite of high-performance parallelizing 64-bit and 32-bit Fortran compilers and tools with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 to […]

Microsoft released the beta version of Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System on Sept. 14. The technology is also known as VSTO (Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office) Second Edition Beta, or VSTO 2005 SE Beta for short, the company said. In a blog post, KD Hallman, Microsofts general manager for Visual […]

WASHINGTON—Appistry has announced the launch of a new program to help grid-enable startup companies that wish to quickly scale their applications. At the GridWorld 2006 conference here on Sept. 12, St. Louis-based Appistry announced its “Right From the Start” program, which is aimed at helping startups and emerging growth organizations to accelerate the development and […]

WASHINGTON—Microsoft is working on delivering a new language that will help to make grid environments more secure by providing decentralized authorization policies, among other features, said a Microsoft researcher. Blair Dillaway, a Microsoft researcher and member of the incubation team working on the technology, said Microsoft is working on a new security language known as […]