Darryl K. Taft

BOSTON—With the Web Services Interoperability Organizations (WS-I) Basic Profile 1.0 now available, the next step will be to test for conformance to the profile and WS-I is working to deliver that, officials said. Jacques Durand, director of industry relations and standards at Fujitsu Software and chair of the WS-I Test Tools Working Group, said the […]

BOSTON—Despite the politics and competing standards in the space, Web services can help users save time, money and effort, users said. In a panel on Web services interoperability, Bill Stangel, senior vice president and enterprise architect at Fidelity Investments in Boston, said the Web Services Interoperability Organizations Basic Profile, announced Tuesday, helps enterprises save time, […]

BOSTON—After a long period of hype around Web services, the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) Tuesday announced the official delivery of the WS-I Basic Profile 1.0. The WS-I Basic Profile 1.0 is a set of specifications that guarantees Web services interoperability if users adhere to the profiles guidelines and vendors include WS-I BP 1.0 support […]

IBM is working on new search technology that may eventually give Google Inc. a run for its money, at least in the corporate space. Officials at IBMs T.J. Watson Research Center here discussed with eWEEK this month how it is tackling the problem of understanding unstructured data. Using a combination of artificial intelligence techniques, IBMs […]

Novell Inc. is reaffirming its position in the enterprise with the acquisition of open-source developer Ximian Inc. and by sticking by its stalwart product, NetWare. Days after Novell announced the purchase of the Boston-based Linux developer last week, industry talk shifted to whether Linux was making NetWare irrelevant. Novell officials at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Novell Inc. dismissed reports that it is planning to phase out new NetWare development in favor of Linux. A Novell executive Wednesday told eWEEK that the Provo, Utah, company has no plans of cutting NetWare development in favor of Linux, as some reports had indicated. Chris Stone, vice chairman of the company, said NetWare […]

SAN FRANCISCO—With legal terms such as liability, indemnification and lawsuit as prominent themes of the LinuxWorld show here, a small software company has addressed the issue with a solution to find offensive code. Aduva Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif., has developed a system known as OnStage that contains a feature known as SCO Check that will “conduct […]

SAN FRANCISCO—RealNetworks Inc. Wednesday announced the launch of the Helix Player project, an open-source effort to deliver an open media player for Linux, Unix and Solaris. In addition, Kevin Foreman, general manager of the Seattle, Wash., company said the Helix Player will feature the companys RealAudio and RealVideo binaries to take to Linux, Unix and […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Following its acquisition of Ximian Inc. Monday, Novell Inc. continued to show its commitment to Linux with new announcements around groupware and relationships with Linux distributors. Novell, of Provo, Utah, announced at the LinuxWorld conference here, that Novell GroupWise for Linux will include GroupWise client and server services running on Linux. The product, which […]

For the worlds largest computing company, IBM is working hard to please the smallest customers. The small-and-midsize-business segment has been a key strategy for IBM, and it will be “a key part of our growth,” said Janet Perna, general manager of data management solutions at IBMs Software Group, during an interview here last week with […]