Darryl K. Taft

Ruby on Rails 1.0, the official fully baked release of the popular open-source development framework is now available. David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails (RoR), announced the availability of Ruby on Rails 1.0 on his web log Tuesday. “Fifteen months after the first public release, Rails has arrived at the big 1.0,” […]

Zhongyuan Zheng, vice president of Red Flag Software Co. Ltd. of Beijing, said he believes the next big battleground in China (as well as throughout the world, but in China now) will be the desktop, with desktop Linux continuing to creep in and fight Windows dominance in the country. Red Flag is the dominant Linux […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. Tuesday announced a move into the database world with the release of Java DB, a distribution of the Apache Derby open-source database technology. During a keynote at the Apache Software Foundations ApacheCon in San Diego, Tim Bray, director of Web Technologies at Sun and XML specification co-editor, said Sun was incorporating the […]

Compuware Corp. Tuesday announced enhancements to its application quality solutions—The Compuware Application Reliability Solution and Compuware QACenter Enterprise Edition. The new releases, version 5.1 of both products, provide centralized test asset repositories, decentralized test management, requirements analysis and optimized testing, Compuware officials said. Moreover, Compuware has integrated CARS (Compuware Application Reliability Solution) with Changepoint, the […]

BEA Systems Inc.s founder, chairman and CEO has pledged to bring the Chinese IT industry on par with the rest of the world. In fact, Alfred Chuang said he expects to see China take a leading role in IT as it has in manufacturing. And Chuang told audience members, the majority of whom were Chinese, […]

At the BEAWorld conference here last week, BEA Systems Inc. officials made it quite clear that they intend to make enterprise portals a centerpiece of the companys strategy going forward and also stressed that its facilities in China will play a key role in BEAs plan to expand throughout the world. BEA last week unveiled […]

On the heels of news that Java is surpassing C and C++ for use in many open-source projects, Sun Microsystems last week announced a broad-based program to distribute its NetBeans open-source Java development platform to developers throughout the world. Sun announced the NetBeans WorldTour, a series of developer events throughout the world where the company […]

As the Apache Software Foundation holds its annual conference in San Diego this week, one of the hot topics under discussion is likely to be a new proposal known as Tuscany. Tuscany was approved as an Apache incubation last week. It is a project to bridge the gap between language-specific application component implementation technologies and […]

BEIJING—At a panel on open source technology, a group of experts on the subject said the greatest prospect for success with open source software involves a strategy of mixing open source with commercial software. Adam Fitzgerald, director for developer solutions at BEA Systems Inc., said, “You need to start thinking about what an open source […]

BEIJING—BEA Systems Inc.s leader opened the companys BEAWorld 2005 Beijing conference here Wednesday morning with a pledge to bring the Chinese IT industry on par with the rest of the world. In fact, Alfred Chuang, CEO of BEA, said he expects to see China take a leading role in IT as it has in manufacturing. […]

BEIJING—At its BEAWorld Beijing conference, BEA Systems Inc. officials discussed the companys portal strategy, addressed the demand for its service-oriented architecture product line and celebrated the growth of its research and development center here. BEA Wednesday announced that its portal strategy is to enable enterprise customers to use the companys portal technology as a business […]

Intalio Inc. Tuesday announced the acquisition of FiveSight Technologies, a privately held provider of an open-source implementation of the Business Process Execution Language 2.0. Redwood City, Calif.-based Intalio, which calls itself the open source BPMA (business process management system) company, acquired Chicago-based FiveSight for an undisclosed amount. The two companies have a history of working […]