Darryl K. Taft

Customers of Adobe Systems Inc. and of Macromedia Inc., longtime rivals that agreed to merge last week, are cautiously optimistic that the benefits of the $3.4 billion deal will outweigh any potential drawbacks and ultimately create a stronger company. “I would characterize my feelings as a combination of excitement and uneasiness at the same time,” […]

Mike Devlin, co-founder of Rational Software Corp. and most recently general manager of IBM Corp.s Rational business unit, has retired from the systems giant. Sources said IBM announced Devlins retirement internally last week, along with the resignation of Hugh Scandrett, a longtime Rational executive and chief of development for the division, who was viewed as […]

Palamida Inc., a startup focusing on intellectual property management and compliance technology, Monday announced the appointment of Mark Tolliver as president and chief executive of the company. Tolliver, who was most recently the marketing and strategy officer at Sun Microsystems, takes over the helm at San Francisco-based Palamida as the companys core product, IP Amplifier […]

Microsoft Corp. has extended an olive branch to the open-source community, calling for a sit-down to discuss how the software giant can better work with the open-source world. But dont expect to see an open-sourced version of Windows any time soon. Microsoft is making nice with its open-source adversaries, while continuing to defend its rights […]

BEA Systems says it will announce in June an integrated suite of products to address a new market opportunity it calls the service architecture market. In an interview with eWEEK, Bill Roth, vice president of product marketing at San Jose, Calif.-based BEA Systems Inc., said the new products will enable business process experts and IT […]

Novell is continuing its embrace of the open-source community with new hires and the promise of even greater integration with key open-source projects. Novell Inc. has just hired Jeremy Allison, co-author of the Samba open-source software suite, which delivers file and print services to SMB/CIFS (Server Message Block/Common Internet File System) clients. Novell recently opened […]

Oracle Corp. Monday announced a new brand name for its middleware as well as a road map for certifying PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards applications with this middleware offering. The Redwood Shores, Calif., company minted its middleware platform “Oracle Fusion Middleware,” and it includes the Oracle Application Server 10g application development tools and J2EE (Java 2 […]

Laszlo Systems Inc. on Tuesday announced the release of OpenLaszlo 3.0, the latest version of the companys open-source platform for building rich Internet applications and services. The San Mateo, Calif., company said it renamed its Laszlo Presentation Server to OpenLaszlo to reflect the companys move to an open-source licensing model. Laszlo announced in October that […]

Borland Software Corp. last week announced the availability of the latest release of its Together suite of modeling tools for Microsoft Corp.s Visual Studio .Net. Borland announced Together 2005 for Microsofts Visual Studio .Net, which now offers UML (Unified Modeling Language) 2.0 support for the development environment. “Well be the bridge between the UML world […]

Two Java solution vendors have proposed open-source object- relational mapping projects to the Eclipse Foundation in the past two weeks. Last week Versant Corp. announced that it will open-source its object-relational mapping and data persistence platform and head an Eclipse Foundation project to help simplify J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) development. Versant, of Fremont, […]

While Microsoft Corp. has been mum about its upcoming Microsoft Business Framework for the last year, the team has been hard at work on a 2007 release. Darren Laybourn, general manager, Microsoft Business Framework, said the delivery of MBF is taking longer than anticipated because of dependencies the framework has on other technologies in development. […]

While the integration of Microsofts Visual Studio 2005 development-tools suite with its SQL Server 2005 database is geared at helping developers more easily build database applications, it also delivers a platform for data warehousing and business intelligence, the company said. “We wanted to build a professional-grade development environment for data warehousing and BI, and if […]