Darryl K. Taft

IBM is taking its jStart program beyond its Java roots with upgrades that will focus on taking emerging technologies beyond the IBM testbeds and into the hands of real-world customers. Rod Smith, vice president of emerging technology in IBMs Software Group, said jStart will focus mostly on SOAs (service-oriented architectures) and other hot new areas. […]

Evans Data Corp. has released results of a survey that show a decline in usage of three popular open source dynamic languages in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). The survey of 400 developers in the EMEA region showed double-digit declines in the use of PHP, Perl and Python, the three languages that make […]

Along with the release of the new Windows Vista beta, developers are being treated to technologies to create applications for the new operating system. Microsoft Corp. last week gave developers access to the WinFX Runtime Components Beta 1 and the WinFX SDK (Software Development Kit). The WinFX SDK contains documentation, samples and tools designed to […]

SpikeSource Monday announced a new strategy of providing made-to-order open-source stacks of software fully configured and tested for enterprise customers. Kim Polese, CEO of the Redwood City, Calif., company, said SpikeSource Inc., an open-source IT services company, will enable developers to choose from pre-built stacks to use or to order their own. Polese said the […]

REDMOND, Wash.—Among the new products in the Microsoft server and tools pipeline is a suite of tools for doing animation. Eric Rudder, senior vice president of Microsofts server and tools business, said a new product known as Microsoft Expression Studio is one of the tools Microsoft is working to deliver. “Its a new suite for […]

REDMOND, Wash.—Security remains one of the biggest concerns for Microsoft over the coming year and beyond. Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie, a Microsoft chief technology officer, spoke on a wide range of issues, but they singled out security as among the key focuses of the company. The two spoke […]

Microsoft Corp. Wednesday announced the release of the first beta release of its Windows Vista client operating system, and with it the company also announced official names for the operating systems presentation and communication subsystems, formerly known by the code names “Avalon” and “Indigo,” respectively. According to sources, Microsoft will officially name Avalon the Windows […]

When BEA shipped its Tuxedo 9.0 transaction processing infrastructure software last week, the company ensured that its CORBA solution would continue to empower systems into the era of service-oriented architectures. Indeed, George Gould, product manager for Tuxedo at San Jose, Calif.-based BEA Systems Inc., said Tuxedo 9.0 advances BEAs CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) […]

Graham Glass, founder of successful software companies, supporter of Web services and service-oriented architectures, and former chief technology officer at webMethods Inc., has announced his resignation from the business integration software vendor. Glass, who joined Fairfax, Va.-based webMethods when the company acquired Glass previous venture, The Mind Electric Inc. (TME), in October of 2003, said […]

Several major software companies aim to cash in on the growing use of AJAX by delivering tools to help developers build applications that take advantage of the popular style of Web development. Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp. and TIBCO Software Inc. have announced plans to support or increase their support for AJAX development, and Google […]

The Java programming language turned 10 this year, and at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco last month, Sun Microsystems Inc. threw a big bash for its innovative technology, replete with a huge cake as well as a New Orleans-style ragtime band. Meanwhile, James Gosling, the creator of Java as well as a Sun fellow […]

In a wide-ranging discussion Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates offered his views on the decline in government funding for computer science research, hiring in the industry, solving hard IT problems and bringing more women into the field, among other issues. At the sixth annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit at Microsofts Redmond, Wash., […]