Darryl K. Taft

The open-source Eclipse Foundation is expected to name Mike Milinkovich, an Oracle executive, to the position of executive director of the organization Tuesday. According to sources, Milinkovich, who has a great deal of experience in the Java and object-oriented programming worlds, will join the foundation following its exhaustive search for an individual to lead it […]

BEA Systems laid out its service-oriented architecture (SOA) vision Tuesday in a strategy it calls Liquid Computing, formerly known as Project Sierra. Speaking at the companys annual BEA eWorld conference in San Francisco, Alfred Chuang, BEA Systems Inc.s CEO, said Liquid Computing builds on BEAs already established SOA focus and features new products and services […]

As the pace toward service-oriented architectures quickens, more developers are scrambling to explain the merits of their competing SOA implementations. At its eWorld conference in San Francisco this week, BEA Systems Inc. will lay out its SOA vision through a plan currently called Project Sierra. Comprising a set of educational and professional services, Project Sierra, […]

Microsoft Corp. will open a new chapter of its tools strategy this week when it announces a team-oriented version of its application development platform. At its Tech Ed conference in San Diego, Microsoft plans to unveil Burton, the code name for its Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, sources said. The system will feature improved support […]

Despite Microsoft Corp.s plan to deliver a team-oriented version of its highly successful application development suite aimed at enterprise development, IBM believes its head start in the so-called applications lifecycle management arena will keep the software giant at bay. In an interview prior to Microsofts TechEd 2004 announcement of its Visual Studio Team System, code-named […]

SAN DIEGO—Infragistics Inc., maker of reusable presentation layer development tools for Microsoft Corp. systems and Java, announced Monday the release of a new video and position paper touting the importance of presentation layer development in enterprise applications. The East Windsor, N.J., company released its information at the Microsoft TechEd 2004 conference here, featuring Mark Driver, […]

Computer Associates International is expected to announce its plans to join the Eclipse Foundation at its annual conference next week. The Islandia, N.Y.-based company will join the Eclipse Foundation as part of a broad open-source initiative it is undertaking to support its developers. Computer Associates International Inc. is expected to clarify its plans during its […]

As the move to service-oriented architectures continues to pick up its pace, vendors are jockeying to get their messages out on how they will help customers implement SOAs. Sun Microsystems Inc., of Santa Clara, Calif., is placing a lot of focus on the Java Business Integration (JBI) specification, also known as Java Specification Request (JSR) […]

As the hoopla wanes for JBoss over anonymous and pseudonymous postings to various Web sites, one of the key players in the drama has come to the open-source companys defense. JBoss Inc. and its flamboyant leader, Marc Fleury, were taking heat in the Java and open-source communities earlier this week—and in the weeks leading up […]

When Cornelius Willis joined BEA Systems from Microsoft, his first move was to start figuring out how to open-source some of BEAs key developer technology in order to help make the companys tools framework a standard in the enterprise Java space, like Microsoft had done for Windows development. BEA Systems Inc. saw the fruition of […]

The professional open-source company JBoss Inc. and its flamboyant leader Marc Fleury are taking heat in the Java and open-source communities for allegedly posting fake messages around the Internet promoting JBoss and its business model and blasting competitors. According to sources and published reports, JBoss employees, including Fleury, the chief executive of the so-called “professional […]

The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) on Tuesday announced the release of the working-group draft of the WS-I Basic Security Profile. WS-I officials made the announcement at the Gartner Application Integration and Web Services Summit in Los Angeles. The draft is now available so that users and developers can assess the profile and send feedback […]