Darryl K. Taft

FineGround Networks Inc. on Tuesday announced that its patent-pending application acceleration software platform, the Condenser, will support the IBM WebSphere Application Server. FineGround made its announcement at the IBM developerWorks Live conference in San Francisco. The Campbell, Calif., company focuses on enterprise Web application acceleration. “Our approach is a bit different from other companies in […]

BEA Systems Inc. is making a significant new foray into the government market through a new relationship with Lockheed Martin Corp. to deliver application server-based solutions for a variety of needs, including Homeland Security, the companies said. Under an agreement announced Monday, BEA and Lockheed Martin will work together to identify and pursue new business […]

Sun Microsystems Inc.s NetBeans became the first major open source tools platform to implement the Model Driven Architecture (MDA), the company announced Tuesday. Sun officials said the company has contributed a series of modules supporting the Object Management Groups (OMGs) MDA to the NetBeans open source project. The information can be found at www.netbeans.org. The […]

Blue Titan Software Inc. is rolling out software designed to add a networking layer to Web services, where applications and data can be shared and combined. Officials with the San Francisco company, which released two versions of its new Web services software last week, said the Web services networking arena encompasses network infrastructure; applications and […]

WASHINGTON D.C.—Despite Microsoft Corp. claims to the contrary, lawyers for the states on Thursday said the software giant sought to ratchet up its competition with RealNetworks Inc. by tightly integrating the Windows operating system with its Windows Media Player. During his cross-examination of Will Poole, Microsofts vice president of Windows New Media Platforms Division, John […]

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The states proposal calling for Microsoft Corp. to deliver a modular, or “unbound,” version of Windows is impossible, according to the companys technical expert witness. Stuart Madnick, a professor of information technology and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, testified Thursday that Microsoft would not be able to comply with the states proposal. […]

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Digital media software does not have the potential to provide platform competition to Microsoft Corp.s Windows, despite the recent testimony from an executive with RealNetworks Inc., according to the vice president of Microsofts Windows New Media Platform division. Will Poole, in written testimony submitted Thursday morning to U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, said […]

WASHINGTON, D.C.—In a video deposition taped last month, a key strategist for the states in the Microsoft Corp. remedy case said hed met with Microsoft competitors to help craft the states remedy proposal and called it “tough luck” for ISVs if certain pieces of essential Windows code is missing from implementations delivered under the proposed […]

WASHINGTON—Lawyers for the non-settling states on Wednesday continued to challenge definitions made by Microsoft Corp.s technology witness on various terms relating to the remedy proposals in its antitrust case. The states continued in an attempt to show Stuart Madnick, a professor of engineering and information technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has demonstrated confusing […]

WASHINGTON, D.C.—A lawyer for the states Wednesday tried to paint an MIT professor as being too friendly to Microsoft Corp., saying the witnesss definition of such technology terms as “interoperability” and “commingling” were too broad. In his cross-examination of Stuart Madnick, a professor of IT at the Massachusetts Institute of Technologys Sloane School of Management […]

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Microsoft Corp.s decision to withdraw Richard Fade may make it difficult for lawyers for the states to introduce evidence they say it crucial to their case. Attorneys for Microsoft and the states battled in court Tuesday morning over whether documents related to Fades testimony could be entered into evidence. Fade is vice president of […]

Blue Titan Software Inc. on Monday released two versions of its new Web services software, which the company claims delivers “origin-to-edge” performance. The new software features a computing architecture that allows applications and data to be shared and combined in what Blue Titan calls a Web services networking infrastructure, said Frank Martinez, chief technology officer […]