Darryl K. Taft

When Adobe Systems and Macromedia last week ended their longtime rivalry and announced plans to merge, the future of the combined company became a question of great interest to users of both companies products. Adobe Systems Inc. acquired Macromedia Inc. in a $3.4-billion deal last week. The combined company will operate under the Adobe brand […]

CAMBRIDGE, Md.—Does intellectual property protection policy promote or inhibit innovation? A panel at the ACTs (Association for Computing Technology) Intellectual Property and Technology Summit here discussed that question. “Defining innovation broadly, I think IP is in support of development,” said Keith Maskus, an economics professor from the University of Colorado. “I believe IP does promote […]

Versant on Tuesday announced that it is open-sourcing its ORM and data persistence platform and heading up an Eclipse Foundation project to help simplify Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition development. Fremont, Calif.-based Versant Corp. has announced that it is contributing its commercial mapping tools and runtimes for EJB (Enterprise Java Beans) 3.0 persistence and JDO […]

IBM is planning to bolster its development tool set with features to help developers bake security into their applications. Anthony Nadalin, chief security architect for IBMs Software Group, said IBM is looking to do more to address the issue of security throughout the application life cycle, starting during the requirements process and going straight through […]

In a nondescript conference room at the heart of Microsoft Corp.s campus here, 35 developers sit shoulder to shoulder and prepare for battle. This is the Visual Studio “ship room,” and in minutes it will play host to a raucous, relentless and occasionally personal debate over the bugs remaining in the Visual Studio 2005 application […]

Borland announced Monday the availability of the latest release of its suite of modeling tools, Together for Visual Studio .Net. The Scotts Valley, Calif., company announced that Together 2005 for Microsoft Visual Studio .Net now offers UML (Unified Modeling Language) 2.0 support for the Microsoft Corp. development environment. “Well be the bridge between the UML […]

A team of developers has started a project to create an open-source alternative to Microsoft Corp.s Visual Studio Team System. The project, known as NTeam, will use several existing open-source tools and applications, such as the NUnit and NAnt .Net unit testing and build tools, respectively, and will cover various stages of the application development […]

ActiveGrid Inc. has released the early-access version of its open-source grid application server, combining XML, open-source and grid computing technology. The San Francisco company made its LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP/Python/ Perl)-based technology available via The Apache Software Foundations Apache License 2.0. The new products consist of ActiveGrid Application Builder and ActiveGrid Grid Application […]

The Java Community Process has announced that SouJava, the Brazilian Java Users Society, has become a member of the JCP. JCP membership gives SouJava the ability to participate in the Java Community Process, initiate Java Specifications Requests and hold sway in the evolution of the Java platform and Java technology. SouJava is Brazils largest Java […]

JBoss Inc. has upgraded its indemnification coverage for customers using its JBoss Enterprise Middleware System. The Atlanta-based company Tuesday announced that its indemnification coverage now includes unlimited coverage for defense, repair and replacements involving any intellectual property claims, said Brad Murdoch, vice president of services at JBoss. “We believe we are setting a standard for […]

IBMs Global Services division Tuesday announced a set of new asset-based services aimed at helping customers move to service-oriented architectures. Michael Liebow, vice president of Web services and SOA at IGS (IBM Global Services), said the new asset-based services consist of IBM software and other intellectual property, as well as best practices, and they focus […]

Compuware Corp. has released QACenter Enterprise Edition and QACenter Performance Edition, updated solutions that enhance the companys suite of testing tools and help customers better manage application quality and performance. QACenter Enterprise Edition features enhancements to the Compuware TestPartner functional testing solution, the company said. Compuware TestPartner 5.3 includes upgraded support for Microsoft Corp.s .Net […]