Darryl K. Taft

Jeremy Allaire is hoping to transform the way people exchange information on the Internet. In an interview this week, Allaire, the technologist-in-residence at General Catalyst Partners and former chief technology officer at Macromedia Inc., told eWEEK he had only hours before launched a proposal for something he called RSS-Data. “I wrote up a proposal, which […]

IBM has used the combined resources of IBM Software Group, IBM Global Services and IBM Research to develop a set of tools and services to help customers modernize and transform legacy applications. The three groups, company executives said, worked together to deliver the application modernization offerings, which will provide end-to-end solutions and services to modernize […]

NEW YORK—While open source is viewed as the movement to bring the power of software development to the people, some major proponents of the space say the most innovation is accomplished by a core group of developers. Speaking at the RVC Softedge 2003 conference here, Marc Fleury, president of JBoss Group LLC, an Atlanta-based company […]

Several OASIS members announced Monday the formation of a technical committee with an eye toward creating a global Web services framework for deploying multiplatform Web services worldwide. The newly formed OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) FWSI (Framework for Web Services Implementation) technical committee—which includes Sun Microsystems Inc., RosettaNet, CommerceNet and Yellow […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. will face fireworks at the Java Community Process meetings and elections this week over its Java branding intentions. The JCP is holding scheduled elections to replace the current members making up the Micro Edition Executive Committee and the Standard Edition/Enterprise Edition Executive Committee. Both committees oversee the working groups that craft Java […]

JBoss Group LLC, maker of a popular open-source application server, Monday announced its expansion into Europe, with European headquarters in Switzerland. Atlanta-based JBoss said its expansion into Europe was fueled by the emerging demand for open-source technology in Europe, particularly in European governments and educational facilities, as well as corporations. Known as JBoss Group Europe, […]

Despite its acquisition earlier this week by a British antivirus software maker, ActiveState Corp. said it will maintain its focus on development tools and its involvement in the open source community. Sophos Plc, based in Abingdon, U.K., announced its acquisition of Vancouver, British Columbia-based ActiveState in a $23 million transaction late Wednesday. The antivirus company […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. Tuesday announced agreements with several PC manufacturers to ship the Java runtime environment on their PCs. More than 50 percent of the current market of PC suppliers will be covered by the agreements. Sun announced deals with Acer Inc., Gateway Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Toshiba America Inc. and Tsinghua Tongfang Co. […]

A group of companies have come together to form a new technical committee to propose a transaction-related Web services specification to the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems (OASIS) for future adoption as a standard. A group of companies including IONA Technologies PLC, Sun Microsystems Inc., Oracle Corp., Arjuna Technologies Ltd., Systinet Corp., […]

IBM has been working on enhancing the power of modeling to include not only modeling code but also modeling of business processes and data and to integrate modeling into all its tools as well. Sridhar Iyengar, a distinguished engineer in the Application Integration and Middleware division for the Armonk, N.Y., company, said IBM is mapping […]

With Sun Microsystems Inc.s new Java enterprise System and a pricing model that delivers the middleware as an entire software stack for $100 per employee, one might ask, “Whats the benefit for developers?” Plenty. “My only comment is, why didnt they do this sooner?” said Rick Preston, manager of Unix systems at Rosetta Biosoftware, a […]

Despite an ongoing battle over the licensing of the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) with Sun Microsystems Inc., JBoss Group LLC has joined the Java Community Process (JCP), the organization that oversees all issues relating to the Java platform, including J2EE. Marc Fleury, president of JBoss, told eWEEK that his Atlanta-based company, which provides services […]