Darryl K. Taft

Borland Software Corp.s acquisition of Segue Software and divestment of its integrated development environment tools line is being viewed as the inevitable evolution of the tools space, with the force of the open-source movement and not owning the platform being key factors. Borland, of Cupertino, Calif., announced its intent to acquire Segue Software, Lexington, Mass., […]

CUPERTINO, Calif.—Showing his penchant for the big move, Borlands chief executive Tod Nielsen on Feb. 8 announced that Borland has agreed to acquire Segue Software while at the same time divesting itself of its integrated development environment. Borland, based here, is acquiring Lexington, Mass.-based Segue in a deal worth about $100 million and is dropping […]

A Microsoft executive Jan. 30 said the Team Foundation Server component of Visual Studio Team System will ship in March. Microsoft had been saying TFS was on track to ship in the first quarter of 2006. And S. “Soma” Somasegar, corporate vice president of the companys developer division, noted in his blog that the technology […]

Compuware released Jan. 30 a new version of its security analysis tool, DevPartner SecurityChecker 2.0, which will support Microsofts Visual Studio 2005. Compuware also announced a new security assessment offering to help organizations improve application security. At VSLive in San Francisco, Compuware launched DevPartner SecurityChecker 2.0, which enables development and testing teams to improve the […]

Tod Nielsen, CEO at Borland Software, started his role as head of the Cupertino, Calif., company at the Borland Developer Conference in San Francisco in November. Following his keynote address at the event, Nielsen invited eWEEK in for his first press interview as Borlands CEO. Nielsen told eWEEK Senior Editor Darryl K. Taft that he […]

Web services and service-oriented architecture security software provider Forum Systems issued an alert on Jan. 30 for AJAX-related security threats and performance issues. The use of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML enables responsive and interactive Web services; however, the reliance on XML as the content type for requests and response payloads means that applications are exposed […]

Microsofts “sparkle” is set to get some new cousins. Following up on its recent release of the first preview of Sparkle, its designer tool for creating applications for Windows Vista and the Web, the company is currently at work building designers for other core infrastructure pillars of its platform. In an interview at the VSLive […]

Microsoft has solidified the time frame for releasing Team Foundation Server and will be releasing a preview of another key piece of Visual Studio technology, a company executive said at the VSLive conference here last week. In a keynote address, S. “Soma” Somasegar, corporate vice president of developer tools at Microsoft, said that in the […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Microsofts “Sparkle” is set to get some new cousins. Following up on its recent release of the first preview of Sparkle, its designer tool for creating applications for Windows Vista and the Web, the company is currently at work building designers for other core infrastructure pillars of its platform. In an interview at the […]

SAN FRANCISCO—While Microsoft has not yet jumped full-fledged onto the Web 2.0 bandwagon, the company is clearly taking a good look and kicking the tires. John deVadoss, director, architecture strategy at Microsoft, said that although Microsoft has not effectively adopted Web 2.0 as a primary focus, “there is something fundamentally happening…and if Web 2.0 is […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft livened up what had been a stodgy enterprise-focused conference here at VSLive, and gave developers a peek at some of the newfangled types of things they will see at the software giants MIX 06 conference next month in Las Vegas. In a round-robin demonstration of new and upcoming technologies, Microsoft officials showed technology […]

IBM and a group of industry leaders on Feb. 1 announced an open-source initiative to promote the adoption of AJAX technology. The new initiative, known as Open AJAX, includes such prominent supporters as BEA Systems, Borland, the Dojo Foundation, the Eclipse Foundation, Google, IBM, Laszlo Systems, Mozilla, Novell, Openwave Systems, Oracle, Red Hat, Yahoo, Zend […]