Darryl K. Taft

SAN FRANCISCO—With its JavaOne conference behind it, Sun Microsystems Inc. is looking ahead to extensions of the Java platform such as high-performance computing and new scripting programmer support—and possibly a whole new language. “Weve got one group thats seriously doing some language stuff, and thats a part of a project that targets HPCS, or High […]

The Eclipse Foundation next month plans to announce a new open-source project to deliver an open platform for frameworks and services for test and performance tools used along the software development lifecycle. According to foundation officials, the Eclipse Foundation will announce its Test and Performance Tools Platform Top Level Project at the LinuxWorld Conference & […]

As Microsoft moves to broadly cover the application development life cycle by adding testing, profiling and design tools to its environment, Compuware says its partnership with the software giant has paid off so far—and that it should continue to do so as new opportunities arise in the market. “Compuware as a company has addressed the […]

When Microsoft announced its Visual Studio Team System at its Tech Ed conference in May, company officials hoped that VSTS would spawn an ecosystem of products around the application life-cycle management tool set. A key partnership should be realized this week, when AmberPoint Inc., of Oakland, Calif., releases the developer edition of AmberPoints Web services […]

Innoopract, a German provider of tools and services around the Eclipse open-source development framework, has announced Yoxos, an open-source Eclipse distribution featuring Eclipse 3.0. The Karlsruhe, Germany, company, dubbed Innoopract Informationssysteme GmbH, introduced Yoxos last week as a distribution of the new Eclipse 3.0 technology and many of the popular Eclipse plug-ins for doing Web […]

IBMs Rational division on Tuesday announced plans to standardize its automated software quality tools on an open-source platform, and the company also launched its new Continuously Ensure Quality (CEQ) initiative. IBM Corp.s Rational division, based in Lexington, Mass., said it is standardizing its testing tools on the Hyades open-source software quality platform. Hyades is a […]

The major-vendor push behind service-oriented architectures was completed last week as Sun Microsystems Inc. stepped into the SOA fray, joining Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp., BEA Systems Inc. and IBM. At its JavaOne conference here, Sun, of Santa Clara, Calif., introduced Project Kitty Hawk, a technology for implementing SOAs, and an SOA readiness assessment service. John […]

SAN FRANCISCO—What was billed as a possible rumble turned out to be little more than a discussion among rivals, as industry leaders and observers debated the merits of open-sourcing Java at the JavaOne Conference here Thursday. Included in the panel were Java creator James Gosling; Rob Gingell, chief engineer at Sun Microsystems Inc.; Rod Smith, […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Defending Sun Microsystems honor regarding its stewardship and its ability to profit from Java, a leading Java developer said he has had enough of Wall Streets influence on the platform. Rick Ross, founder and president of Cary, N.C.-based JavaLobby Inc., a grass-roots organization of Java developers with more than 100,000 members, said he is […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Nokia extended its support for Java development by announcing support of the Eclipse platform for developers building applications to run on its phones and devices. The Helsinki, Finland-based mobile communications giant announced support for the open-source development platform Tuesday at the JavaOne Conference here. And Pertti Korhonen, chief technology officer at Nokia Corp., delivered […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Although Monday was the day of the Tiger at Sun Microsystems Inc.s JavaOne conference here, the company also introduced another animal, the Kitty Hawk—its new service-oriented architecture strategy. Sun introduced its latest release of the Java platform, Java 2 Standard Edition 5.0, also known as Tiger, at the conference Monday, but it also introduced […]

SAN FRANCISCO—The president of Sun Microsystems Inc. is looking at ways to express his views and thoughts on certain things to the public, quite possibly in a Weblog, he said Monday. Jonathan Schwartz, president and chief operating officer of Santa Clara, Calif.-based Sun, said he is seriously considering maintaining his own blog to communicate with […]