Darryl K. Taft

Microsofts Server and Tools Division is now Rudder-less, but that does not mean it is without direction. Microsoft on Thursday announced more fallout from its recent reorganization, this time naming company veteran Bob Muglia as the replacement to Eric Rudder as senior vice president of server and tools. Rudder has received rave reviews from peers […]

Microsoft on Thursday released to manufacturing its Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 products, previously known by the code names Whidbey and Yukon respectively. Officials at the Redmond, Wash., company called the RTM of the technology a significant milestone on the road to the launch of Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk […]

IBM Corp. Tuesday announced two open source initiatives around its application server offerings and standards in the storage community. The Armonk, N.Y.-based company announced a new version of its WebSphere application server, dubbed the WebSphere application Server Community Edition (WAS CE). WAS CE is based on the Apache Software Foundations Geronimo open source application server […]

Borland Software Corp. last week announced the acquisition of Legadero Software Inc., a provider of IT management and governance solutions for software development and delivery. Borland, of Cupertino, Calif., did not disclose the financial terms of the deal. However, company officials said Borland plans to use Legaderos technology to expand its ALM (application lifecycle management) […]

Looking to enrich user experiences with Web applications, vendors are increasingly turning to Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. Sun Microsystems Inc. is promoting an AJAX-supporting component model around its upcoming Java Studio Creator tool with hopes the model can succeed the way the component model Microsoft Corp. fostered around its popular Visual Basic development environment did, […]

The ObjectWeb Consortium is preparing to release a new open-source Enterprise Service Bus initiative that targets the Java Business Integration specification. According to sources, the new open-source ESB project, known as Petals, targets highly distributed integration environments with an implementation of JBI, also known as Java Specification Request (JSR) 208. The ObjectWeb Consortium is a […]

With a renewed focus on modernizing and maintaining the integrity of mainframe and legacy systems, as well as providing deep support for distributed .Net and Java-based systems, Compuware Corp. is making a concerted effort to shed its old-line image and show it can be closely allied with both Microsoft Corp. and the Java community without […]

IBM Tuesday bolstered its arsenal of SOA technologies with the acquisition of DataPower Technology Inc., a maker of XML and Web services infrastructure technology. Cambridge, Mass-based DataPower has been a force in the XML software and appliance space, where its appliances have been used in enterprise environments to enhance performance and security for Web services […]

Once again, JBoss Inc. has come into the limelight for alleged bad behavior and, in essence, not pursuing the open-source way, according to some. In a blog entry posted recently, Rickard Oberg, founder of Senselogic Sweden AB, a software maker based in Orebro, Sweden, and former member of the JBoss team, accused JBoss of bad […]

Microsoft Corp. has lost one of its high-profile hires to an open-source consortium. Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, announced on Monday that Ward Cunningham is leaving Microsoft to join the staff of the open-source tool consortium. Cunninghams new title is Director of Committer Community Development. Cunningham, the father of the Wiki concept, […]

Mergere Inc. Monday announced support for open source build orchestration and management tools to help enterprises build software better using Community-oriented Real-time Engineering (CoRE) practices. To help enterprises accomplish this, Marina Del Rey, Calif.-based Mergere is offering subscription-based support, training and consulting services for the Apache Software Foundations Maven and Continuum projects, said Winston Damarillo, […]

Borland Software Corp. Monday announced the acquisition of Legadero Software Inc., a provider of IT management and governance solutions for software development and delivery. Cupertino, Calif.-based Borland did not disclose the financial terms of the deal. However, company officials said Legaderos technology will expand Borlands Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) products and services by delivering new […]