Darryl K. Taft

Mainsoft Corp. and IBM have joined together to extend the Linux ecosystem by helping Microsoft Corp. customers move to Linux. Mainsoft officials said the new program enables Windows Web and server applications to run on Linux across IBMs line of eServer platforms supporting IBM WebSphere application servers. Mainsoft, a cross-platform development company, produces the Visual […]

The Apache Software Foundations Geronimo project team has released the much-anticipated Geronimo 1.0 Java application server. Geronimo has undergone two years of development effort, including testing on Linux, Windows, Mac OS and zLinux, as well as many hardware platforms. In addition, Geronimo 1.0 has been J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) 1.4 certified and features support […]

Harry Shum, Ph.D., the managing director of Microsoft Research Asia, is on a mission. His primary mission is to lead Microsoft Corp.s research efforts in China from his office in the heart of Beijings top academic, science and technology corridor. His immediate goal is to help Microsoft catch and beat Google in the search technology […]

Oracle Corp. Thursday announced a set of middleware aimed at helping enterprises build service-oriented architectures. The new Oracle SOA Suite is designed to use Oracle software components or integrate with an enterprises existing non-Oracle middleware components. The Oracle SOA Suite consists of components of the Oracle Fusion Middleware suite, and it supports Oracles application server, […]

Despite Microsoft Corp.s denial of rumors that the software giant may have interest in Yahoo Inc., the companies have been talking—at least on a research level. Harry Shum, the Beijing-based managing director of Microsoft Research Asia, said he has recently spoken with the head of Yahoo Research about the issue of enhancing search capabilities and […]

Mainsoft Corp. and IBM Wednesday announced an effort to work together to extend the Linux ecosystem by helping Microsoft customers move to Linux. Mainsoft, of San Jose, Calif., said the new program enables Windows Web and server applications to run on Linux across IBMs line of eServer platforms supporting IBM WebSphere application servers. Mainsoft, a […]

The Mono open-source development platform based on .Net will be in the next version of the Fedora core Linux distribution. Christopher Blizzard, a systems engineer at Red Hat Inc., Monday noted on his blog: “Tonight Mono lands in Rawhide and will be included in FC5 [Fedora Core 5].” Meanwhile, on his blog Tuesday, founder of […]

Microsoft Corp. has released a preview of the design tool for its upcoming Windows Presentation Foundation subsystem, also known as Avalon. Code-named Cider, Visual Designer for WPF is set to be part of “Orcas,” the next major release of Microsofts Visual Studio tool suite, which is expected to support Windows Vista development. Orcas is slated […]

ClearNova Inc. is open-sourcing its Asynchronous Java and XML development platform in an effort to spur the use of AJAX in building rich Internet applications as well as to accelerate sales and services around the companys ThinkCap tool set. ClearNova, of Alpharetta, Ga., Tuesday is expected to announce plans to open-source its ThinkCap JX visual […]

Alfred Chuang, CEO of BEA Systems Inc., said BEA is a thought leader in the world of SOA (service-oriented architecture) with its WebLogic and AquaLogic product lines, along with its new portal strategy fueled by the acquisition of Plumtree Software earlier this year. In an interview with eWEEK senior editor Darryl K. Taft at BEAWorld […]

Technology vendors are not just selling products into the Chinese market these days. They are moving in. Hewlett-Packard Co. opened a research lab, HP Labs China, in November, joining Microsoft Corp. and IBM and other IT companies that have set up research labs in the country to tap the increasing number of technical graduates Chinese […]

When BEA Systems Inc. founder, Chairman and CEO Alfred Chuang says he wants to see China become an IT power, he is not alone. All the technology companies that have placed early bets on China are thinking the same thing. Last month, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development published a report showing that Chinas […]