Darryl K. Taft

Bugopolis LLC, maker of open source developer tools solutions, Wednesday announced Bugzilla Now!, its new defect-tracking solution for open-source tools users. Bugzilla Now! is based on the Bugzilla defect tracking software created by Mozilla.org. Bugzilla Now! brings the Bugzilla software immediately to bear on users systems and enables automatic software updates via a Web browser, […]

Borland Software Corp. Tuesday announced a new version of its integrated development environment (IDE) for Java, called JBuilder X, offering more than 100 new and enhanced features, the company said. Bill Pataky, director of product management for Java solutions at Scotts Valley, Calif.-based Borland, said JBuilder X, which marks the tenth version of the companys […]

In its continuing effort to standardize a format for reusing software development assets, the Object Management Group is expected to discuss its emerging Reusable Asset Specification at its technical meeting next month in London. The group may even hold a preliminary vote then on whether to put the specification into the OMGs fast-track adoption process, […]

Microsoft Corp. and voda- fone Group plc. last week announced a partnership aimed at driving mobile Web services and merging the worlds of the PC and mobile devices. At the International Telecommunications Union Telecom World conference in Geneva, Switzerland, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates and Ian Maxwell, group strategic relationship director for […]

OASIS has formed a new technical committee for the Electronic Business using Extensible Markup Language for Business Process, known as the ebXML BP technical committee. The ebXML BP will work on advancing the ebXML Business Process Specification Schema (BPSS), a model for enabling business process collaboration within and between organizations. ebXML users include General Motors […]

In a recent survey, software developers said they view Linux as more secure than Windows XP for building and deploying applications. The survey, conducted by Evans Data Corp., Santa Cruz, Calif., showed that developers view Linux as “the most innately secure operating system. In fact, the percentage of developers who said so increased to 23 […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. Tuesday announced a new program to boost the development of mobile Java services and announced new partnerships to further extend the reach of Java into the mobile space. At the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Telecom World 2003 in Geneva, Switzerland, Sun announced its new Java Mobility Advantage Program, an end-to-end program to […]

Industry leaders and watchers are bullish on the IT industrys continued comeback, with software development the leading driver of innovation. “Things are definitely getting better. The 20 companies I follow are growing and getting multimillion-dollar contracts,” John Taysom, founder and managing partner at RVC Capital Inc., of Palo Alto, Calif., said here two weeks ago […]

Despite IBMs tight coupling with Microsoft Corp. in setting key standards in the Web services world, the company continues to make moves to differentiate itself from the Redmond, Wash., software maker in the space. IBM recently launched what it calls the Web Services Industry Councils, or WSIC, a program in which the company polls customers […]

A new way of exchanging data on the Internet has been hatched by one of the industrys veteran luminaries that could push blogging into the realm of “business data exchange.” Jeremy Allaire, technologist in residence at General Catalyst Partners LLC, in Cambridge, Mass., and former chief technology officer at Macromedia Inc., has drafted a proposal […]