Darryl K. Taft

At the Gartner Application Development Summit in Phoenix Tuesday, Compuware Corp. is expected to lay out its road map for delivering tools to support the Microsoft Corp. development environment. Rob Straight, product manager for DevPartner products at Compuware in Nashua, N.H., said Compuware plans to outline its strategy to further integrate its tools with Microsofts […]

NEW YORK—In his inimitable, unflappable style, Sun Microsystems Inc.s president and chief operating officer, Jonathan Schwartz, Tuesday delivered Suns message to the financial community: Sun is back and its making its comeback by returning to its roots on Wall Street. Analysts and customers welcomed the news, especially over advances in the Solaris architecture and the […]

JBoss Inc. Monday announced that its new JBoss Application Server 4.0 is available. The Atlanta company, which calls itself a “professional open source” company, said JBoss AS 4.0 has achieved certification for J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) version 1.4 for which it had to pass more than 23,000 tests of the Test Compatibility Kit. […]

The effects of Microsoft Corp.s recent “Longhorn” changes are trickling down to the developer division and could ultimately impact the companys tool strategy. Microsoft officials earlier this month announced the company is cutting some key features, such as the WinFS file system, from Longhorn, the next major version of Windows, to meet its late-2006 deadline. […]

Although the company will not call it a comeback, BEA Systems Inc. is beginning the process of stabilizing the company after a series of high-level defections. As a start, San Jose, Calif.-based BEA recently named Wai Wong to the position of executive vice president, products. Wong, who started with the company last week, brings 22 […]

Macromedia Inc. Thursday announced the immediate availability of its Macromedia Flash Player 7 for Solaris. Officials at the San Francisco-based company said Macromedia Flash Player 7 offers better performance and provides a consistent cross-platform experience. It features SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) support for Web services connectivity and its support for CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) […]

At its annual Borland Conference this week, Borland Software Corp. set out its vision for Software Delivery Optimization, which the company said will add business processes and management capabilities to its application lifecycle management strategy. As part of the strategy, Borland announced a Worldwide Services Group that will deliver consulting, education and implementation support; an […]

Digital Evolution Inc., a provider of Web services security and management software, acquired Flamenco Networks Inc., a provider of specialized network infrastructure to enterprises building secure, service-oriented architectures, in a deal announced Monday. All Flamenco Networks products and solutions now belong to Santa Monica, Calif.-based Digital Evolution. Flamenco will maintain offices in Atlanta, with all […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—Microsoft Corp. has commissioned a study showing that its .Net development environment is more productive than comparable Java environments, a top company executive said at the VSLive! Orlando conference here. Microsoft Developer Division Corporate Vice President Soma Somasegar said Microsoft commissioned The Middleware Co. Inc. to study productivity and performance comparisons between Microsofts Visual […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—Microsoft Corp. announced another edition of its upcoming development tools family, releasing information on Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition at the VSLive! Orlando conference here. In his keynote address to the developer audience, Microsoft Developer Division Corporate Vice President Soma Somasegar said Visual Studio 2005 will round out the Visual Studio 2005 product line, […]

Seizing on a growing trend among small and large enterprises alike, the IBM Software Group has spent the better part of the past year quietly executing a far-reaching plan to create bundled middleware solutions for specific vertical industries. The effort, which officials said has been loosely ongoing since the late 1990s, came into sharp focus […]

Despite Microsoft Corp.s plans to release the majority of the feature set of its upcoming “Longhorn” operating system on time in 2006, some companies are working to deliver Longhorn-wave technology today. /zimages/4/28571.gifClick here to read about Microsofts decision to remove features from Longhorn in order to meet the 2006 shipping date. Xamlon Inc., of La […]