Darryl K. Taft

WASHINGTON—The head of Microsoft Corp.s Shared Source Initiative Tuesday said he foresees a world of coexistence where no one software development and distribution model wins. “I see a world of coexistence,” said Jason Matusow, program manager for Microsofts Shared Source Initiative (SSI), which is the companys response to the open-source movement where Microsoft allows key […]

Health Management Associates Inc. is using Web services to deliver medical information to its doctors and staff in hospitals the company owns across 14 states. The companys recently deployed Physicians Access application provides real-time access to patient information to some 280 doctors in 44 hospitals in nonurban areas of the Southeast and Southwest, as well […]

In a move designed to attract more developers to its vision of Web services and application development, Sun Microsystems Inc. is developing enhancements to the Java language that provide a more Visual Basic-like experience. The goal will crystallize in June at the companys JavaOne conference with the likely announcement of a Java-based tool that competes […]

Sun Microsystems Inc.s nominee for the board of the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) made a strong case for why the Unix systems vendor should win one of two available board seats. WS-I will announce the winners at the end of March. Mark Hapner, Suns lead architect for Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and chief […]

Microsoft Corp., IBM, BEA Systems Inc. and Tibco Software Inc. Thursday announced two new Web services specifications that advance Web services reliability, but that also seemingly compete with existing Web services reliability efforts put forth by Sun Microsystems Inc., Oracle Corp. and others. The two new specifications are known as WS-ReliableMessaging and WS-Addressing, and they […]

Iona Technologies Inc. has announced its Mobile Orchestrator, a Web services-based business process integration tool built in alliance with Intel Corp. to support Intels Centrino mobile technology. Ionas Mobile Orchestrator fits into Intels Occasionally Connected Computing model in that it is a “store-and-forward” Web services application that enables mobile workers to work just as efficiently […]

The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) has formed a new technical committee to define Web services management. The new OASIS Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) Technical Committee will seek to define a standard for Web services management, which many consider among the last obstacles in front of widespread adoption of Web […]

Sybase Inc. last week announced the latest incarnation of its RAD tool, PowerBuilder 9.0. The Dublin, Calif., company made the announcement at Giga Information Group Inc.s Application Development and Integration conference in Orlando, Fla. Sybase will ship PowerBuilder 9.0 March 24. Company officials said the new release is the foundation for its 4GLplus initiative, which […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. last week announced that its peer-to-peer technology, known as Project Jxta, has experienced strong adoption since its rollout nearly two years ago. The Santa Clara, Calif., company said more than a million developers have downloaded Project Jxta from the Sun Web site since it was introduced in February 2001. Sun released the […]

As XML becomes more ubiquitous, developers are finding that XML processing requires more horsepower than their servers can provide. Stepping in with new solutions to help accelerate XML content are DataPower Technology Inc. and Gluecode Software Inc. The pair will announce this week a deal in which the companies will co-market souped-up XML processing solutions […]

Sapient Corp. and Microsoft Corp. have jointly developed a new tool that automates key steps necessary in building applications and Web services based on the .Net Framework. The tool, known as BuildIt, automates many oft-repeated actions required to create applications, such as generating executables, and automates certain testing and application finishing procedures. Sapient did most […]

Capitalizing on the strengths of its heritage, IBM announced Wednesday that it will offer a CICS SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) Technology Preview to provide connectivity to CICS mainframe applications via Web services. Bob Sutor, director of Web services for IBM, said the company will release its mainframe support for Web services as a CICS […]