Darryl K. Taft

SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft Corp. shed more light on its plans for building connected systems, by highlighting its next-generation Web services technology, code-named Indigo, at the VSLive conference here Tuesday. In a keynote presentation, Eric Rudder, senior vice president of servers and tools, said Indigo is “a natural extension to the .Net Framework,” which will enable developers […]

The emergence of stacks of open-source infrastructure software will spawn new opportunities to enter and succeed in open source, according to a panel of experts. “We see the emergence of the open-source stack as a new phenomenon that will allow new companies to break into the enterprise,” said David Skok, a general partner with Matrix […]

Borland Software Corp. Monday announced a new software delivery platform that provides role-based software delivery and improved collaboration and process control, and moves the company into more direct competition with Microsoft Corp. and IBM to capture the attention of team developers. Scotts Valley, Calif.-based Borland announced the release of its new Core SDP, an integrated […]

Macromedia Inc. announced the availability of the next version of its ColdFusion MX server, with new support for mobile devices and rich forms, and new reporting and printing capabilities. Dave Gruber, product manager for Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7, formerly code-named Blackstone, said the new version enables developers to build Internet applications for the mobile user, […]

The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards announced Monday a revision to its intellectual property rights policy that spells out the organizations IPR intent and enables its members to choose among three modes. Under the terms of the new OASIS IPR policy, OASIS members working on specifications can choose to license their submissions […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft Corp. celebrated the third anniversary of its Visual Studio .Net and .Net Framework technology Monday at the VSLive conference here. In an event that featured news announcements and even a birthday cake for hundreds of attendees, S. Soma Somasegar, corporate vice president of the developer division at Microsoft, covered .Net momentum, progress with […]

A coalition of financial institutions is working to develop an open-source alternative to proprietary message queuing technology, hoping to make Web services and service-oriented architectures fit for duty on Wall Street. The new technology, known as AMQ, is an open-source message queuing system that provides the same functionality as IBMs WebSphere MQ (formerly known as […]

Aiming to boost business uses of Web services, OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems, on Thursday announced that UDDI (universal description, discovery and integration) specification Version 3.0.2 was approved as an OASIS standard. Simply put, UDDI is a Web-based distributed directory that enables businesses to list themselves on the Internet and […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—The Internet is inherently insecure, and the government is no longer providing sufficient funding to help correct the problem, so said a leading member of an Internet content delivery company at a conference here over the weekend. “The Internet is very insecure,” said F. Thomson Leighton in his keynote speech at the Harvard Business […]

While Microsoft Corp. will not actually deliver any new bits at the VSLive Conference in San Francisco next week, the company will share the status of some of its key tools and discuss release targets. Sources said Microsoft plans to announce that Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2005; Beta 3 of SQL Server 2005; and […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Microsoft Corp. has no immediate plans to integrate the MSN desktop search application into its operating system, a company executive said at a conference here this weekend. Speaking on a panel on search technology at the Harvard Business Schools Cyberposium, Mark Kroese, general manager of information services and merchant platform product marketing for MSN, […]

At next weeks VSLive conference in San Francisco, Microsoft Corp. will be announcing the status of such tools as Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2, SQL Server 2005 Beta 3 and the first Community Technology Preview of Indigo. S. “Soma” Somasegar, corporate vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft, who is one of the shows […]