Darryl K. Taft

The battle over open source and licensing Sun Microsystems Inc.s software continues, with both Sun and the JBoss Group LLC claiming the right to refuse or attain the proper licenses for Suns Java technology, based on open-source status. Palo Alto, Calif.-based Sun and Atlanta-based JBoss remain at odds over whether JBoss, an open-source application server […]

Be Inc.s settlement with Microsoft Corp. this month is a far cry from the tough talk the dissolving company made in court and in filings regarding its antitrust case against the Redmond, Wash., software company. Be, of Mountain View, Calif., and Microsoft announced a settlement whereby Microsoft would pay Be more than $23 million and […]

Metanology Corp., a modeling software vendor, announced Monday that it has joined the IBM-sponsored Eclipse open-source tools development effort. The Alpharetta, Georgia, company was elected as a supporting member of the Eclipse board and the companys chief executive, David Zygmount, will represent Metanology on the Eclipse board of stewards. The Eclipse consortium is working more […]

Web-services standards took two steps forward last week, when Sun Microsystems Inc. announced support for industry-standard profiles and a key standards organization approved a specification for Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP). With Sun and the Java Community Process tying the upcoming Java 2 Enterprise Edition 1.4 platform to the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) […]

In his first public interview since taking on the responsibilities of Sun co-founder and chief scientist Bill Joy, Sun Microsystems Inc.s chief technology officer, Greg Papadopoulos, sat down with eWEEK Senior Writer Darryl K. Taft to pay homage to Joy and to give a glimpse at his views on the future of the computing industry […]

Discuss This in the eWEEK Forum Borland Software Corp. Wednesday announced the release of its Together Edition for Microsoft Visual Studio .Net, an integrated design, modeling and coding environment for the Microsoft .Net Framework. Scotts Valley, Calif.-based Borland made the announcement at the VSLive! Orlando conference in Orlando, Fla., Wednesday during Microsoft Corp.s keynote address. […]

BEA Systems Inc.s most recent customer win for its WebLogic Integration 8.1 product is significant not so much in the win itself, but in the types of companies and products BEA was up against. The San Jose, Calif., company on Tuesday will announce that Toyota Australia, which has been part of the beta program for […]

Be Inc.s settlement of an antitrust lawsuit with Microsoft Corp. last week is a far cry from the tough talk the dissolving company made in court and in filings regarding its case against Microsoft. Last Friday, Be and Microsoft announced a settlement of the Mountain View, Calif., operating system companys lawsuit against Microsoft, whereby Microsoft […]

IBMs Rational division delivered an update on its integration into IBM as well as some new directions at its annual user conference last week in Orlando, Fla. One new direction is a RAS that Rational is contributing to the Object Management Group. Reusable Asset Specification defines standards for the specification, cataloging and reuse of software […]

In an about-face that could have a dramatic impact in the Java tools space, Sun Microsystems Inc. has indicated it might be willing to join the IBM-sponsored Eclipse open-source development platform effort—but only if momentum to spin off the effort into an independent organization continues. Eclipse already seems to be moving from an IBM-led organization […]