Darryl K. Taft

At its fourth quarterly SunNetwork 2003 Conference in Berlin, Sun Microsystems Inc. announced more than 20 new products and technologies to an audience of more than 5,000 European customers and 200 partners. “Were jazzed up this is going to be a big event for us. Were going to have 6,000 people here, and it will […]

Microsoft on Wednesday debuted its new, streamlined intellectual-property (IP) licensing strategy with the announcement that it is now offering, for a fee, its file allocation table (FAT) file system and ClearType font-rendering technologies to any interested licensees. At the same time, the Redmond software company also launched a one-stop IP licensing Web site, where it […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. on Wednesday said it has decided pass on the IBM-sponsored Eclipse consortium working to deliver an open-source application development environment. Over the summer, Sun officials acknowledged that the company had been invited to join the Eclipse consortium and that Sun was considering the offer. However, the Santa Clara, Calif., Unix systems supplier […]

The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems has approved the Universal Business Language 1.0 beta for public implementation testing. Jon Bosak, chairman of the UBL technical committee at OASIS and a distinguished engineer and XML architect at Sun Microsystems Inc., said the UBL 1.0 beta package is intended to provide the specifications needed […]

Wind River Systems Inc., maker of proprietary embedded operating systems and development tools for creating embedded applications, has announced its membership in two open-source consortia. The Alameda, Calif., company announced Monday that it has joined the Eclipse Consortium, the open-source tools platform sponsored by IBM, to promote the standardization of embedded development around the Eclipse […]

BEA Systems Inc. and IBM are developing three new specifications that will improve portability across the companies competing application servers as well as other Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition application servers that comply with the specifications. BEA, of San Jose, Calif., and IBM, of Armonk, N.Y., plan to publish the specifications on a royalty-free basis […]

Free tools, including Vordel Ltd.s SOAPbox, are making it easy for Web-services users to get started with security. Vordel, of Dublin, Ireland, on Wednesday introduced the Vordel SOAPbox, a free tool for testing Web-services security. The tool is used to create XML messages containing security tokens, without requiring the writing of any code, the company […]

BEA Systems Inc. and IBM Tuesday announced that they will deliver three new specifications that will increase portability across the companies competing application server platforms as well as other Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application servers that comply with the specifications. Rod Smith, vice president of emerging technologies for IBM Software Group in Raleigh, N.C., […]

Several leading Java tool vendors are building an organization to link their respective frameworks in an effort to offer an alternative to Microsoft Corp.s .Net framework and Visual Studio tools. The group, to be called the Java Tools Community, was initiated by Oracle Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. and looks to create an interoperable Java […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. Tuesday announced that the Java Community Process has approved the Java 2 Enterprise Edition Version 1.4 specification and the technology will be available on Monday. The Santa, Clara, Calif., company also announced that Apache.org and JBoss Group LLC have licensed the J2EE 1.4 specification and its accompanying Technology Compatibility Kit (TCK) under […]