Darryl K. Taft

Apple Computer Inc. executives late Monday refuted Microsoft Corp. claims that its not doing enough to promote and sell Mac OS X. “We do a tremendous amount of marketing on Mac OS X and Im proud of the progress weve made with the platform since it was introduced last May,” said Phil Schiller, senior vice […]

NTT Communications Corp., Japans largest long-distance phone service provider, is using IBMs WebSphere and DB2 technology to build its Universal Description, Discovery and Integration registry. NTT will build its public UDDI registry node using IBMs WebSphere and DB2 software. The company will operate it on the WebSphere Application Server and will use DB2 database software […]

Rogue Wave Software Inc. on Monday announced the availability of the beta version of its Web services infrastructure software. The Boulder, Colo., software development tools company announced that a beta version of its Project Ratchet is available on the companys Web site. Project Ratchet is the latest release supporting Rogue Waves Web services infrastructure strategy […]

Microsoft Corp. Friday reaffirmed its commitment to its partners, promising to invest $500 million into building and supporting its partner community. Speaking at the Microsoft Fusion 2002 conference of Microsoft partners in Los Angeles Friday, Allison Watson, vice president of Microsofts Worldwide Partner Sales and Marketing Group, said Microsoft has pledged to invest $500 million […]

Microsoft Corp. Wednesday announced the launch of the Microsoft .Net Architecture Center and the availability of the Visual Studio .Net Integration software development kit, providing enterprise customers with a resource center for architectural guidance and integration tools for enterprise developers building applications on the .Net platform. Microsofts moves are key to increased adoption of the […]

Genuitec LLC this week announced a new suite of application server plug-ins for IBMs WebSphere Application Developer, or WSAD. The suite is designed to enable developers to develop, deploy and debug applications using third-party J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) application servers with the same ease as the WebSphere server. The plug-ins feature user controls for […]

Microsoft Corp. Tuesday announced the availability of the beta version of its Content Management Server (CMS) 2002. The software giant said CMS 2002 offers significant enhancements over Content Management Server 2001, with key enhancements in authoring and administration tools, interoperability, and the developers environment, said Chris Ramsey, lead product manager for Microsoft Content Management Server. […]

Model N Inc., a provider of contract life cycle management solutions, Tuesday announced a new customer win for its contract life cycle management solution. Model N, of South San Francisco, Calif., announced that Guidant Corp., an Indianapolis-based provider of cardiovascular medical products, has selected Model N for Guidants strategic pricing initiative. The company said Guidants […]

Macromedia Inc. Tuesday announced the availability of Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX, its new server that unites communications and applications. Peter Ryce, San Francisco-based Macromedias senior director of product management and product marketing for rich media, said the new server integrates support for streaming media, real-time collaboration, and multiway video, audio and text messaging into […]

Microsoft Corp. is making another push to attract Java developers to its .Net platform. The Redmond, Wash., software company last week announced the availability of Visual J# .Net, a Java development tool for building applications and XML Web services on .Net Framework. The tools release rounds out Microsofts language offerings in its Visual Studio .Net […]

Ilog Inc. wants to push its business rules technology into Web services, a move that could make it easier for business users to manage and change policies without the help of programmers. To do it, Ilog is integrating its product lines. Later this month, the company will release the next version of its Java-based optimization […]

BEA Systems Inc. Monday announced BEA WebLogic Portal 7.0, the latest version of its portal software, which features native support for Web services. The San Jose, Calif., company said new administration tools in BEA WebLogic Portal 7.0 have been designed to consume and display Web services created in BEAs WebLogic Workshop, Microsoft SOAP (Simple Object […]