Darryl K. Taft

Some enterprise customers may claim Microsoft Corp. has abandoned its original .Net strategy, but dont count the Annie E. Casey Foundation among them. The foundation is using Microsofts Visual Studio .Net development platform to rewrite a key application related to its grant-making process. The Redmond, Wash., software developer is scheduled to highlight the foundation at […]

Chief Technology Officer Jeremy Allaire is leaving Macromedia Inc. Writing on his Weblog this week, Allaire said he is calling it quits after having spent eight years at the company that bore his name, Allaire Corp., and Macromedia, which acquired Allaire two years ago. “After eight years with Allaire and Macromedia, Ive decided to move […]

In what appears to be an internal Sun Microsystems Inc. memo, Sun engineers criticize the Java platform and the Solaris operating system. The memo, posted on the InternalMemos.com Web site and titled “The Java Problem,” says in its executive summary: “While the Java language provides many advantages over C and C++, its implementation on Solaris […]

iRise Inc. Tuesday announced its Application Simulator, a tool that brings simulation to the process of creating Web applications—enabling even non-technical users to define, test and collaborate with technical users in developing applications. Officials at El Segundo, Calif.-based iRise said Application Simulator enables non-technical business analysts to develop simulations of Web applications without writing any […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. Tuesday announced that Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) Version 1.4 will support the Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) organizations Basic Profile specification. Ralph Galantine, Suns group manager for Java Web services, said Sun joined WS-I in October and is now showing that it can support the organizations Basic Profile, thus adding to Suns […]

IBM, seeking to push grid computing beyond its scientific and technical roots and into the mainstream of commercial business enterprises, last week announced its grid computing vision and 10 new solutions for five key markets. Grid computing enables enterprises and users to share computing power, databases and other tools across enterprise boundaries without sacrificing local […]

Borland Software Corp.s deal to license Microsoft Corp.s .Net Framework Software Development Kit, announced last week, underscores Microsofts efforts to further distribute its development technology in its battle with Java. In fact, getting third parties to distribute .Net technology in their products parallels what the courts have done for Java in ordering Microsoft to carry […]

Web services, until now a technological concept looking for a business application, may have found one: integration. At the Harvard Business School Cyberposium here last month, leading vendors and a key customer organization said the primary goal of Web services today is integration—connecting software systems and applications within companies and with business partners and customers. […]

IBM Corp. says the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) is not enough to support its on-demand computing strategy, so the companys looking to implement a services-oriented architecture through its WebSphere application server. Scott Hebner, director of product management for WebSphere, said IBM plans to deliver network transaction support, workflow, and Web services management and provisioning […]

BEA Systems Inc. on Tuesday will announce two new versions of its application server to focus on the departmental computing market. Frazier Miller, BEAs director of product strategy, said the company is releasing a set of products as well as new channels to focus on the departmental level. While IBM is saying it is moving […]

The Web Services Interoperability Organization Thursday announced the availability of documents to support the organizations Basic Profile 1.0, which is expected to be released in the second quarter of this year. Meanwhile, the WS-I recently voted to amend the Basic Profile to include Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) attachments in Version 1.1 of the profile, […]

Borland Software Corp. posted higher sales but a drop in net income based on acquisition-related costs in its fiscal 2002 fourth quarter and year ended Dec. 31, 2002. The Scotts Valley, Calif., software development tools maker posted revenues of $67.1 million for the quarter, up from $59 million for the fourth quarter of 2001. However, […]