Darryl K. Taft

Microsoft Corp., IBM and friends introduced a new Web services standard and enhanced another, extending the tandems might in the Web services standardization arena while raising caution for some in the space. Microsoft, IBM, BEA Systems Inc. and SAP AG on Tuesday announced the publication of the WS-MetadataExchange specification. In addition, Microsoft, IBM and BEA […]

IBMs year-old acquisition of Rational Software Corp. has paid off handsomely with the delivery of several integration projects and a unified development platform to each companys customer base. Steve Mills, IBMs senior vice president and group executive in charge of the IBM Software Group, said IBMs $2.1 billion investment in Rational in February 2003 has […]

SOMERS, N.Y.—When CEO Sam Palmisano set IBM on the path toward On Demand in October 2002, he said the company would help its customers better respond to their own customers, competitors and rapidly changing market. But in Palmisanos view, the transformation starts at home, so he decided IBM must first transform itself into an on-demand […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. is expected to announce that its Java Studio Creator, previously known by the code name Project Rave, is going to early access or beta this week, according to sources close to Sun. Java Studio Creator has already undergone two alpha or technical preview test phases, but the early access preview already has […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft Corp. plans to add new Reporting Services capabilities to the next version of its SQL Server database, known as SQL Server 2005, according to company officials at VSLive, the Visual Studio developers conference here. SQL Server 2005, code-named Yukon, had been due to ship later this year. Earlier this month, Microsoft pushed back […]

Will Sun Microsystems Inc. open-source Java or wont it? According to comments made by its chief executive Wednesday, the answer is likely not. During a news conference at the FOSE 2004 show in Washington, McNealy said it is unlikely Sun will open-source Java. According to a report by Government Computer News, McNealy spoke of IBMs […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates on Wednesday conveyed his vision for the future of computing and managed to slip a few technology announcements in to boot during his keynote address at the VSLive! conference here. Gates spoke on his vision of so-called Seamless Computing, where mobility, Web services, speech and location […]

The World Wide Web Consortium last week published two key pieces of its Speech Interface Framework as W3C recommendations or standards, VoiceXML 2.0 and the Speech Recognition Grammar Specification. W3C officials said VoiceXML 2.0 combines Web-based development and content delivery with interactive voice-response capabilities, while SRGS ensures VoiceXMLs support for speech recognition. The W3Cs Speech […]

Oracle Corp. announced last week that the latest version of its application server has passed the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition compatibility test suite and is now J2EE 1.4-compliant. Steve Harris, vice president of Oracles Java Platform Group, in Redwood Shores, Calif., said that J2EE 1.4, “broadly speaking, is J2EE plus Web services” and that […]

Microsoft will use next weeks VSLive/SpeechTek/Microsoft Mobile Devcon conferences in San Francisco to emphasize its message that Visual Studio is the single, unified development platform around which developers should rally. The trio of conferences, which kick off Wednesday with a keynote address by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, will be a launchpad for a handful of […]

The Web Services Interoperability Organization has released its testing tools for measuring Web services interoperability with the WS-I Basic Profile 1.0. At its WS-I Spring Committee Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, the WS-I Wednesday released final versions of its tools, which consist of the Web Service Communication Monitor and the Web Service Profile Analyzer. The […]

Oracle Corp. on Wednesday is expected to announce that the latest version of its application server is compliant with Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE). Officials at the Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Oracle said the company plans to announce that its Oracle Application Server J2EE Developer Preview has passed the compatibility test suite and is now J2EE […]