Darryl K. Taft

Although Linux is catching on rapidly in China, dont expect to see open-source application software taking off in the country any time soon, said an analyst familiar with the Chinese IT market. Huang Yong, chief executive at CCID Consulting Co. Ltd., a Beijing-based market research and consulting firm, said that despite the “profound impact” Linux […]

Jerome Louvel was looking for a Java framework to support the REST (Representational State Transfer) architectural style for a project he was working on. When he couldnt find one he decided to create one himself. He dubbed his effort the Restlet Project and launched it as an open-ource initiative. Louvel granted eWEEK senior editor Darryl […]

Mercury Interactive Corp. announced Monday its plans to acquire Systinet Corp. in a deal valued at $105 million. Mercury said the acquisition will enable the Mountain View, Calif., company to move into the SOA (service-oriented architecture) governance and lifecycle management software and services space by combining the Systinet SOA governance software with Mercurys own Mercury […]

Addressing the issue of bringing Java development more in line with the needs of Web 2.0 developers, an open-source project has emerged to deliver Java support for the Representational State Transfer architectural style. Jerome Louvel, a developer based in Levallois-Perret, France, has established a project known as the Restlet project to create a REST framework […]

Microsoft Corp. has hired Bill Buxton, a leading computer scientist and designer specializing in the human aspects of technology, to work with Microsoft Research and assist on various projects the company has ongoing in its research labs around the world. Buxton, who will hold the title of senior researcher at the Redmond, Wash., company, brings […]

Earlier this month Microsoft released a preview of its design tool for its upcoming Windows Presentation Foundation subsystem, also known as Avalon. Known as “Cider”, Microsofts Visual Designer for the Windows Presentation Foundation is set to be part of Visual Studio “Orcas,” the next major release of Microsofts Visual Studio tool suite, which is expected […]

IONA Technologies and ObjectWeb Thursday announced that its Celtix open-source ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) project has achieved its third key milestone. The new milestone brings additional transport support, broader specification compliance and enhanced usability to the project, company officials said. IONA is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with U.S. headquarters in Waltham, Mass. ObjectWeb is a […]

Clemens Vasters, a longtime “friend” of Microsoft Corp., will soon be joining the software giant to work on the upcoming communications platform for the Vista operating system. Vasters, who is the co-founder and chief technology officer at Microsoft partner Newtelligence AG, of Korschenbroich, Germany, will join Microsoft in Redmond, Wash., as the community program manager […]

The greatest prospect for success with open-source software involves a strategy of mixing open-source with commercial software, according to a panel of experts on the subject. Adam Fitzgerald, director for developer solutions at BEA Systems Inc., of San Jose, Calif., said: “You need to start thinking about what an open-source solution can do for you […]

Microsoft Corp. Monday announced the hiring of Bill Buxton, a leading computer scientist and designer specializing in the human aspects of technology, to work with Microsoft Research and assist on various projects in the companys research labs around the world. Buxton, who will hold the title of senior researcher at Microsoft, brings a pedigree that […]

The Eclipse Foundation released Version 1.0 of its Web Tools Platform project this month to help developers build enterprise Java and Web applications based on the open-source Eclipse development platform. Tim Wagner, a senior manager at BEA Systems Inc., of San Jose, Calif., and co-chair of the WTP project management committee, said WTP 1.0 was […]

Whos down with OPP? OPP, the title of a 90s rap song by the group Naughty By Nature described the issue of other peoples … well, property. Here Im talking about OPP as Other Peoples Programming. Ive long equated the world of hip-hop with that of application development, where rappers use samples and snippets of […]