Darryl K. Taft

WASHINGTON—Tangosol on Sept. 12 is expected to announce the availability of its Coherence Data Grid Solution Set, which extends enterprise access to the data grid with three new client connectivity options for the companys Coherence Data Grid offering. Cameron Purdy, chief executive of Somerville, Mass.-based Tangosol, said that with the advent of virtualization and the […]

WebMethods, which develops process integration software, announced Sept. 11 its intentions to acquire Infravio, a company best known for its service-oriented architecture governance repository and its tireless work with SOA standards-setting groups. WebMethods will pay about $38 million for Infravio in a deal that is expected to close by months end. The company employs 65 […]

Microsoft has announced official names for its technology set for enabling AJAX development, previously known as Atlas, and has released a road map for delivery of the technology. Microsoft had been calling all its AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)-enabling technology by the code name ASP.Net Atlas. However, from now on the technologies will have separate […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—The Eclipse Foundation succeeds as broad-based open-source organization because of its “secret sauce” for uniting a wide variety of companies and organizations to build a platform from which they all can profit. So claims Mike Milinkovich, the foundations executive director. In a keynote speech titled “Why Eclipse Matters” at the EclipseWorld conference here on […]

Sun Microsystems has hired the lead developers on the JRuby project, an open-source project aimed at developing an implementation of the Ruby language on the Java Virtual Machine. Rich Green, executive vice president of software at Sun, in Santa Clara, Calif., announced on Sept. 7 during a keynote at Sun Tech Days in Seattle that […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—In a move to reinforce its strategy around open-source business models, IBM announced Sept. 7 new software and resources to help customers leverage their investments in open-source development tools and resources. Announced at the EclipseWorld 2006 conference here, the new offerings will help software development teams build Eclipse-based, open, integrated development environments that are […]

Microsoft has announced the release of IronPython 1.0, its implementation of the Python dynamic programming language on the .Net platform. The Redmond, Wash., software giant released IronPython 1.0 on the companys CodePlex community source Web site on Sept. 5. Company officials said IronPython 1.0 represents a significant milestone for Microsofts CLR (Common Language Runtime) by […]

Borland Software is expected to announce an upgrade to its Together 2006 for Eclipse enterprise modeling product on Sept. 6. Borland, based in Cupertino, Calif., is scheduled to highlight the new version of its Together modeling tool at the EclipseWorld conference in Cambridge, Mass., which runs from Sept. 6-8. Together 2006 for Eclipse Release 2 […]

The Eclipse Foundation announced the results of a recent survey on Sept. 5 that shows a dramatic increase in adoption of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform. On the eve of the EclipseWorld conference that runs Sept. 6-8 in Cambridge, Mass., the Ottawa-based Eclipse Foundation unveiled the survey that showed that about 22 percent of respondents […]

BEA Systems has completed development of BEA Services Architecture Leveraging Tuxedo 1.1, a solution for making applications that use BEAs Tuxedo run more efficiently on service-oriented architectures. Officials at BEA, in San Jose, Calif., said BEA SALT 1.1 is based on a configuration-driven model that presents existing Tuxedo services as Web services with no coding […]

As more developers adopt the practice of AJAX-style development to create more interactive applications, they are looking for tools to make the job easier. One such tool is jQuery, which some users say makes AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) development cleaner by making using JavaScript easier. JavaScript is notoriously difficult to work with, said a […]

The Django Web framework makes it easier for Python developers to create Web applications more quickly and with less code, said the lead developer of the open-source project. Indeed, the Django framework is known as the Web framework “for perfectionists with deadlines,” as the technology comes out of a newspaper operation where its developers created […]