Darryl K. Taft

Despite five acquisitions in a little more than two months, BEA Systems Inc. is not done yet. BEAs new chief technology officer, Rob Levy, said the San Jose, Calif., company will continue to seek opportunities to build out its infrastructure software platform through internal development or acquisition. Levy said part of his plan is to […]

Microsoft Corp. is in the process of transitioning from its old accessibility model to a new model supported in Windows Vista. Microsoft is moving from its MSAA (Microsoft Active Accessibility) model to a new cross-platform accessibility model called User Interface Automation, which will be supported in Windows XP and Windows Vista, said Rob Sinclair, director […]

The federal government is in the process of building out an open-source stack of software to be used across agencies to develop, deploy and maintain applications across the life cycle. At a meeting of the Object Management Groups U.S. Government Working Group here last week, George Thomas, a chief architect at the General Services Administration, […]

The folks at Hallmark Cards Inc., in Kansas City, Mo., are experts at acting on feelings. So when company executives felt that the mobile application devices used by the companys retail merchandisers were just plain getting old, the company reached out to Field Performance Group Inc. of Georgetown, Ontario, for help. FPG, in turn, reached […]

Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer spoke with eWEEK Senior Editor Darryl K. Taft last week right after his keynote speech, where Microsoft officially launched Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk 2006. The interview was two days before Microsoft, of Redmond, Wash., released internal memos about the sea change the company was going through […]

The Liberty Alliance announced Monday that IBM, NEC, NTT and RSA Security have passed Liberty testing for the Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0. IBM, NEC, NTT and RSA Security passed interoperability testing at Libertys recent conformance event in Tokyo during the week of Nov. 7-11, Liberty Alliance officials said. The companies demonstrated that their products […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. Wednesday announced Sun Studio 11 and said the company will offer the development tool set free of charge to all developers. Sun Studio 11 supports C, C++ and Fortran development on the Sun platform and features a graphical debugger and a suite of performance analysis tools, the company said. In addition, the […]

Even as Microsoft Corp. launched Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk 2006 here last week—the first major releases for the products in several years—the company acknowledged it must now revise its wares more frequently to respond to customer needs. One way Microsofts development teams intend to do that is through the use of […]

Memos made public last week detailing Microsoft Corp. executives thoughts on how the company must change its method of building software are raising more questions than they answered. Both Bill Gates, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect, and Ray Ozzie, the companys chief technology officer, wrote memos detailing the companys emerging services strategy and the […]

In an effort to grow up fast in the enterprise application lifecycle tools space, Microsoft Corp. has called on the help of a father. Microsoft has tapped Ivar Jacobson, known as one of the fathers of the popular Rational Unified Process (RUP), to lead an effort to deliver a lightweight unified process to the Microsoft […]

The memos from Microsoft leaders made public last week raised more questions than they answered, observers said. Both Bill Gates, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect, and Ray Ozzie, the companys chief technology officer, wrote memos designed to detail the companys emerging services strategy. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told eWEEK in an interview, “I think […]

When Microsoft launched its long-awaited database and tools products last week, the company acknowledged it would have to act faster to revise its products faster as customer needs grow. One way Microsofts development teams intend to deliver on this is through the use of agile development methodologies, such as extreme programming and Scrum, company officials […]