Darryl K. Taft

With a focus on Web services, Sun Microsystems Inc. announced Monday the delivery of two new versions of its application server and a new version of its accompanying development environment. Sun announced that Sun ONE Application Server 7 is available in two versions: the Platform Edition and the Enterprise Edition. The Sun ONE Application Server […]

New tools and strategies rolled out last week by Flashline Inc. and CollabNet Inc. are designed to ease collaboration among software developers. To address a growing trend in enterprise application development, Flashline announced a new version of its software reuse platform that provides collaboration and integration capabilities, said Cathy Lippert, Flashlines vice president of product […]

Two key standards organizations have announced efforts to support Web services, in such areas as security, development, modeling and management. The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) announced that it has formed a technical committee to create XML protocols for digital signature and cryptographic time-stamping for Web services. The committee, dubbed the […]

Charles Fitzgerald, Microsoft Corp.s general manager of platform strategies, is considered one of the companys top “big picture” thinkers. Fitzgerald, who focuses on Windows and .Net and bringing together all of Microsofts complementary technologies such as XML and Web services into a unified infrastructure, spoke with eWEEK Senior Writer Darryl K. Taft earlier this month […]

Borland Software Corp. generated $60.7 million in revenue in the third quarter, a 10 percent jump from the $55 million it accumulated during the same period last year. Net income for the quarter, which ended Sept. 30, rose to $5 million, up from $4.7 million for the third quarter of last year, officials of the […]

After much debate over its position among the Web services elite, Sun Microsystems Inc. will announce Thursday afternoon that it is joining the Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) organization in hopes of being elected as a member of the groups board of directors. Suns move comes a week after the WS-I announced that it is expanding […]

With a recent report on the database market saying the number of new applications and specialty databases will grow in the broadening market, object database vendors are touting deals for their products. In a recent report, the Boston-based Aberdeen Group predicted that the database market will top $10 billion by 2003 and that specialized databases […]

M7 Corporation Inc. and Novell Inc. are rolling out tools to help developers build and deploy Web services. M7 this month unveiled Version 2.0 of Application Assembly Platform, which offers an enterprise object repository, support for Web services and new workflow capabilities. The enterprise object repository lets developers define and reuse business rules, processes and […]

Software developers are finding new ways to use XML for integrating everything from data and Web services to applications for business process management and presentation. Early leaders of this trend include IBM, Cape Clear Software Inc. and Adobe Systems Inc., each of which is readying XML integration capabilities in upgraded products. IBMs WebSphere 5 application […]

Progress Software Corp. is acquiring Excelon Corp. for $24 million. Officials at Progress Software, a Beford, Mass.-based database and e-business company, said on Monday that they sought Excelons expertise in XML tools and data management software. Excelon is among a handful of key players in the XML database market. During a call with reporters and […]

Flashline Inc. on Monday will announce a new version of its software reuse platform, with collaboration and integration capabilities. The Cleveland-based company will announce Flashline Component Manager Enterprise Edition (CMEE) 3.2, which supports collaboration among software developers and enables them to integrate new and reusable software assets—such as components and code libraries—with existing frameworks and […]

Software development tool makers Rational Software Corp. and Compuware Corp. on Thursday announced a mixed bag of second-quarter earnings news. Rational reported a net loss of $19.4 million, while Compuware a net income of $33.8 million. Rational, of Cupertino, Calif., reported revenues of $154.5 million. For the same period a year ago, the company lost […]