Darryl K. Taft

A group of vendors, including Iona Technologies PLC., Arjuna Technologies Ltd., Oracle Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc., last week announced a new Web services specification called Web Services-Composite Application Framework that is aimed at solving the problem of coordinating multiple Web services. Eric Newcomer, co-author of the specification and chief technology officer at Iona, in […]

In light of losing some of its development group to a start-up, open-source software supplier JBoss Group this week will announce new strategic hiring in its developer ranks. The Atlanta-based open-source Java application server vendor also indicated that it has come closer to terms with Sun Microsystems Inc. over the licensing of the toolkits and […]

YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y.—It takes more than innovation to get ideas from an initial thought to a finished product, and IBM has mastered that transition; so said the head of the companys research division Monday. “Invention is not enough. You need a mechanism to get it out to market,” said Paul Horn, IBMs senior vice president […]

Intel Corp. Wednesday announced it has joined the Eclipse Consortium of vendors offering an open-source application development framework. Intel joins other major platform companies such as Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Hitachi, Fujitsu, Borland Software Corp. and a host of others in the IBM Corp.-sponsored effort to create an open platform for Java-based tools […]

A group of Web services supporters including IONA Technologies PLC, Arjuna Technologies Ltd., Oracle Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. have announced a new Web services specification known as the Web Services Composite Applications Framework (WS-CAF). Eric Newcomer, co-author of the specification and Waltham, Mass.-based chief technology officer at IONA, said WS-CAF is a set of […]

NEW YORK—Microsoft Corp. today offered a few new glimpses into its tools roadmap and enhanced its industry partner program to further grow its ecosystem around its tools. Speaking at the VSLive! New York 2003 conference, Eric Rudder, senior vice president of Server and Tools at Microsoft, gave glimpses of future versions of Microsofts Visual Studio […]

Like baseballs New York Yankees, Microsoft Corp. has been paying top dollar for top talent in an effort to dominate the new playing fields of XML and Web services. During the past 18 months, the Redmond, Wash., company has gobbled up some of the best-known XML, Web services and application development brains around. Most recently […]

REDMOND, Wash.—Microsoft Corp. will be beefing up its server and development tools offerings to better support enterprise customers, provide for tighter integration and drive down costs while driving up usage, said Eric Rudder, senior vice president of the companys server and tools business. As part of a product roadmap Rudder presented at the Microsoft Financial […]

REDMOND, Wash.—Microsoft Corp. will be moving more deeply into the model-based programming space, said company chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates. Gates, who was the opening speaker at the Microsoft Financial Analysts Meeting here Thursday, listed model-driven development as one of the companys software advances and said that the use of modeling will become […]

IBM this week is unveiling software in its WebSphere product line that promises to push grid computing further into the mainstream of enterprise IT. The latest version of WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere 5.0.2 Enterprise Edition, includes grid computing features that let customers tap unused or underutilized resources across their enterprise and use them in the […]