Darryl K. Taft

IBM is pursuing its on-demand mission not only through servers, services and middleware but now through development tools as well. In its labs here at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, IBM Research is building an overall development environment known as the On Demand Application Development Environment. The goal is to enable the company to […]

The Globus Project Tuesday announced the official release of the Globus Toolkit 3.0 (GT3), which melds the worlds of grid computing and Web services and helps bring grid computing into more mainstream, commercial applications. Globus officials said GT3 features the first broad-scale implementation of the Open Grid Services Infrastructure (OGSI) 1.0. The Globus Project was […]

IBMs drive to make computing more self-managing is spreading beyond its product line to its business partners, software vendors and standards groups. Autonomic computing is IBMs answer to what it sees as a core IT problem: how to make enterprise computing less complex. But despite its expertise, IBM officials know the company cant go it […]

HAWTHORNE, N.Y.—In a move that is critical to the delivery of Web services offerings, IBM is developing middleware to guarantee service levels. At the companys T.J. Watson Research Center here, IBM is beta testing software developed through its Web Services Management Middleware project that supports differentiated Web services offerings based on SLAs (service-level agreements). The […]

Metrowerks Corp. announced a new platform and tools for building Linux-based applications for devices. Austin, Texas-based Metrowerks on Monday announced the Metrowerks OpenPDA platform and the Metrowerks CodeWarrior for OpenPDA application development tools. Metrowerks officials said the OpenPDA platform consists of a Linux operating system environment, Java software, development tools, integration services and training. The […]

A federal appeals court gave both parties partial victory Thursday in the antitrust case Sun Microsystems Inc. filed against Microsoft Corp. Microsoft won in that the court struck down Suns request that Microsoft be forced to ship Java in every copy of Windows it sells. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in […]

The World Wide Web Consortium has released Version 1.2 of the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) as a formal standard. The Cambridge, Mass.-based W3C released SOAP 1.2 as a full W3C Recommendation Tuesday, the organizations language for making a specification an official standard. SOAP 1.2 includes more than 400 fixes to technical and editorial issues […]

NEW YORK—IBM Wednesday announced a new portfolio of products and services aimed specifically at the small and medium-sized business (SMB) market, including new software, hardware, services and financing offerings. At an event here, the computer systems giant announced its bid to tap the $300 billion SMB marketplace. “By sheer weight, the SMB market is one […]

Microsoft Corp. updated some of its Web development offerings last week, with an upgraded ASP.Net Web Matrix tool, the official release of the ASP.Net Starter Kits and a new ASP.Net Hosting program. Shawn Nandi, product manager for Microsofts ASP .Net, said the Redmond, Wash., company has updated its Web Matrix application development tool for ASP.Net […]

Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. are continuing to lure developers to their respective platforms with free tools for building Web services. Microsoft, of Redmond, Wash., next month is expected to release the beta of its WSE (Web Services Enhancements) Version 2.0, a free tool kit for developers building Web services on the .Net platform. […]