Darryl K. Taft

Microsoft Corp. and IBM are taking decidedly different paths toward developer outreach. While Microsofts MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network), the companys main vehicle for pushing its developer tools out to its customer base, continues to grow, IBM is taking a more targeted approach with its developer-focused network, DeveloperWorks, where the number of subscribers grew by a […]

LAS VEGAS—IBM is taking its strategy to woo developers to the IBM way into the classroom. At its IBM Rational Software Developer Conference here Monday, IBM announced new initiatives to reach developers in the budding stages, as they learn skills in college and graduate school. IBM officials said winning the hearts and minds of developers […]

EnterpriseDB Corp. Monday came out of stealth mode to challenge for the title of best enterprise-class database company. The Edison, N.J., company also announced the availability of the beta version of its flagship product, EnterpriseDB 2005. EnterpriseDB 2005 is based on the open-source PostgreSQL database and supports high-volume applications and update-intensive situations, said Andy Astor, […]

Whats in a name? Back in 2003, when Sun Microsystems Inc. was considering whether it might join the then soon-to-be-independent Eclipse Foundation, one of the key concerns, aside from technical issues, was the name Eclipse. Sun said it would not join an organization named Eclipse, and the foundation agreed to change the name. The Santa […]

Does Sun have lunar envy? One would never know, but given the momentum generated by the Eclipse juggernaut with the Eclipse Foundations signing of big guns like BEA Systems and Sybase, and its garnering deeper support from Borland at its EclipseCon 2005 conference in March, it would be hard not to envy Eclipse. The Eclipse […]

The Web Services Interoperability Organization has promoted a key security document that was approved by its member community. WS-I officials Monday said the organizations “Security Challenges, Threats and Countermeasures” document had reached “Final Material” status and is available for enterprises to use to identify threats and security challenges in their Web services environments. According to […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. announced Monday a new version of its NetBeans open-source integrated development environment. The NetBeans 4.1 IDE features out-of-the-box support for J2SE (Java 2 Standard Edition) 5.0, J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) 1.4 and J2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition) 2.0, according to Sun. /zimages/6/28571.gifClick here to read what eWEEK Labs thought of NetBeans […]

Nsite Inc., a maker of business process automation systems, Monday announced a new Web services product for the customer relationship management market. The Pleasanton, Calif., company announced Nsite 4.5, which delivers bidirectional Web services integration to CRM applications, company officials said. /zimages/3/28571.gifClick here to read eWEEK Labs review of Nsite 4.0. Officials said the bidirectional […]

Black Duck Software Inc. has joined the Open Source Software Institute to help promote open-source software in governments and academic institutions. As part of its relationship with OSSI, Black Duck will serve as a technical contributor to an open-source software R&D program between the U.S. Navy and OSSI. This program is part of a Cooperative […]

IBM last week announced a set of new enterprise patterns to help make developers more productive and to promote the reuse of code and other assets. The new patterns are integrated with tools to automate the development of enterprise applications, said Angel Diaz, director for On Demand Operating Environment Technology Strategy & Marketing for the […]

After it ships the “Whidbey” and “Orcas” versions of its popular Visual Studio tool set, Microsoft Corp.s Visual Studio development team is headed for “Hawaii.” Hawaii is the code name for a version of Microsofts Visual Studio tool set two versions beyond Whidbey, also known as Visual Studio 2005, according to sources familiar with Microsofts […]

Oracle and Zend on Monday will announce an agreement in which the two companies have come together to deliver tighter integration between the Oracle database and the PHP open-source scripting language. Oracle Corp., of Redwood Shores, Calif., and Zend Technologies Inc., of Cupertino, Calif., which employs PHP co-authors and offers products and services around the […]