Darryl K. Taft

Borland Software Corp. announced several new technologies at its Borland Conference last week, including a new version of its Delphi integrated development environment for .Net, a new modeling framework and a new integrated application lifecycle management solution for Java. At the San Jose, Calif., conference, Borland announced Delphi 8 for Microsofts .Net Framework. The new […]

Adobe Systems Inc. Monday announced that it has acquired the technology assets of Yellow Dragon Software Corp., a developer of XML infrastructure software. The acquisition of the Vancouver, British Columbia, company will bolster Adobes XML infrastructure with native ebXML (Electronic Business Extensible Markup Language) support and XML messaging and metadata management software, Adobe officials said. […]

IBM Corp. has put a name on its strategy to componentize its middleware on the way to delivering service-oriented architectures (SOAs), primarily through componentizing its WebSphere application server in a project known as “Vela,” company officials said. IBM has long discussed its plans to componentize its middleware such that all the companys different brands—WebSphere, Tivoli, […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. said it will soon deliver a “technical preview” of its development tool aimed at simplifying Java development for the masses. During a Sun developer “chalk talk” Thursday, Joe Keller, Sun vice president of Java Web services, said the company will release a “technical preview” of the tool, known as Project Rave, that […]

Flashline Inc. has announced a new solution for managing and tracking the use of open-source software, FlashPack for Open Source. The Cleveland-based asset management software provider announced FlashPack for Open Source as an add-on to its Flashline Registry, a software asset management framework the company says will help enterprises keep track of their entire collection […]

Micro Focus International Ltd. Tuesday announced its new technology for migrating mainframe COBOL applications to Windows and the .Net Framework. The Rockville, Md.-based companys new Micro Focus Net Express with .Net product enables developers to easily migrate COBOL applications to Windows and the .Net Framework, said Ian Archbell, vice president of product management at Micro […]

Microsoft Corp. Tuesday announced the winners of a request for proposals (RFP) for projects to add extensions to Microsofts Visual Studio .Net 2003 Academic Edition. Microsoft put out an RFP to universities to come up with enhancements to the Assignment Manager component of Microsofts Visual Studio .Net 2003 Academic system. Microsoft released the Assignment Manager […]

Microsoft Corp. introduced many new technologies at its Professional Developers Conference last week, but few are more of a departure for the company than a Web services infrastructure code-named Indigo. Indigo is an SOA (service-oriented architecture) framework at the core of a new development and deployment paradigm in the next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn. […]

Discuss This in the eWEEK Forum Borland Software Corp. is thinking big once again. A one-time thorn in the side of Microsoft Corp., Borland has a new target: IBM and its Rational division. Borland is celebrating its 20th anniversary this week at its annual BorCon conference in San Jose, Calif., and CEO Dale Fuller and […]

Discuss This in the eWEEK Forum Dale Fuller joined Borland Software Corp. as CEO in 1999 and quickly aligned with Blake Stone, the companys chief technology officer, to set the strategy for the new Borland. Fuller and Stone met with eWEEK Senior Writer Darryl K. Taft in Fullers offices in Cupertino, Calif. Why did Borland […]

Borland Software Corp. announced several new technologies at its 2003 Borland Conference Monday, including a new version of its Delphi integrated development environment for .Net, a new modeling framework and a new integrated application lifecycle management solution for Java. At its conference, known as BorCon, in San Jose, Calif., Borland announced Delphi 8 for the […]

IBM Corp.s Rational division on Tuesday is expected to announce a new version of the IBM Rational Rapid Developer. The IBM Rational Rapid Developer Release 2 is an architected rapid application development environment that provides portal-creation capabilities and integration with legacy systems, the company said. IBMs Rational division is based in Lexington, Mass. IBM officials […]