Darryl K. Taft

Digital Evolution Inc. on Monday announced that it has changed its name to SOA Software to reflect its focus on service-oriented architectures. Santa Monica, Calif.-based SOA Software Inc. also has a new domain name, www.soa.com, and according to company officials, its mission is to provide products and services to help enterprises build and manage SOAs. […]

Sonic Software announced on Monday a series of enhancements to its Sonic SOA (service-oriented architecture) infrastructure product line, with both upgrades and new products. Bedford, Mass.-based Sonic Software Corp. extended its ESB (enterprise service bus)-based line with the new Sonic Collaboration Server and the Sonic Database Service. The Sonic Collaboration Server extends the Sonic ESB […]

LAS VEGAS—Rod Johnson, an outspoken member of the open-source community, rallied Java developers to wave their Java flags high but to look beyond Java and hone their business and communications skills as they look for new opportunities in a world where Java and Microsoft Corp.s .Net reign as the top platforms for developers. Johnson, who […]

Fresh off the introduction of five development partners handling key projects, the Eclipse Foundation this week will add a sixth to spearhead embedded systems efforts. Wind River Systems Inc. will join Eclipse as a Strategic Developer, according to sources familiar with the plans. The announcement, to be made at the Embedded Systems Conference here this […]

LAS VEGAS—While Sun Microsystems Inc. moves to open-source its Solaris operating system and releases key patents in a nod to the open-source community, the company still takes a rap for hampering open source in other ways. At TheServerSide Java Symposium here Friday, Jason Hunter, a member of the Apache Foundation open-source community organization, said the […]

LAS VEGAS—Oracle Corp.s Ted Farrell is about to give a keynote presentation at a geeky Java show here that he expects will get mixed reviews, but he says he sees both sides of the issue he plans to discuss, so hes ready. Farrell, chief architect in the Application Development Tools Division at Oracle, in Redwood […]

BURLINGAME, Calif.—At the EclipseCon 2005 conference here, a leading Google Inc. engineer gave a rare glimpse into the workings of the search powerhouse. In a keynote Wednesday titled “A Look Behind the Scenes at Google,” Urs Hoelzle, vice president of engineering, essentially described the companys secret sauce as “the return of batch computing.” Large numbers […]

BURLINGAME, Calif.—When you go to play on the home field of a major competitor, you typically take your “A” game, but some developers at the EclipseCon conference here are giving Microsoft a solid “C” for its appearance at the conference. Jason Weber, a lead program manager on the Visual Studio team, gave a presentation Wednesday […]

BURLINGAME, Calif.—Borland said it will innovate around the Eclipse open-source development platform just as it does for Microsofts Visual Studio and other core development environments. During a press conference at the EclipseCon 2005 conference here Tuesday, Raaj Shinde, vice president of product strategy and architecture at Borland Software Corp., said the company would continue to […]

The results are in, and a controversial vote regarding the future of a Java persistence standard has been overturned in a reconsideration ballot in the Java Community Process. Initially, the JCP executive committee in January voted against the Java Data Objects 2.0 specification, also known as Java Specification Request 243 (JSR-243), in a public review […]

BURLINGAME, Calif.—Although the Eclipse open-source development platform is the realm of Java and open-source aficionados, Microsoft Corp. will present a talk at the EclipseCon 2005 conference here on the virtues of its proprietary Visual Studio .Net development platform. On Wednesday, Jason Weber, lead program manager for Visual Studio, will give a presentation on “Extending Visual […]

Burlingame, Calif.—At the EclipseCon 2005 conference here, Eclipse executive director Mike Milinkovich announced that CA has expanded its participation in the Eclipse Foundation by becoming a Strategic Developer. Rob Levy, Computer Associates International Inc.s senior vice president of development for AllFusion life cycle management solutions, will join the Eclipse board of directors. In addition, CA […]