Darryl K. Taft

GemStone Systems Inc. and IBM announced a partnership to deliver Linux solutions in the financial services industry Wednesday. Beaverton, Ore.-based GemStone will integrate its GemFire data services solutions with IBMs suite of products, including the WebSphere application server platform, the DB2 and Informix database systems, MQ Series messaging software, and IBMs Rational software development tools, […]

SAP AG made a major Java splash at the JavaOne conference here last week, announcing support for Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition and releasing a new Java development environment, among other things. The Walldorf, Germany, company said it will support J2EE 1.3 in SAP Web Application Server. It also announced SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio, a […]

Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmers “Developers, developers, developers, developers!” sales chant that was caught on video last year and then screamed across the Web seems to have finally caught on at Sun Microsystems Inc. The Santa Clara, Calif., company put on a major display of Java unity and innovation at its annual JavaOne conference here […]

With written filings in the Microsoft antitrust case appeal due in federal appeals court Wednesday, the software giant Monday announced an agreement with West Virginia for the state to drop its appeal—leaving only Massachusetts as the hold-out state pressing for more severe penalties than a settlement agreement accepted by several other states and the U.S. […]

Microsoft updated some of its Web development offerings Monday, with an upgraded ASP.Net Web Matrix tool, the official release of the companys ASP.Net Starter Kits and a new ASP.Net Hosting program. Shawn Nandi, product manager for Microsofts ASP.Net, said the company has updated its Web Matrix application development tool for ASP.Net to reflect developer feedback […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Sun Microsystems Inc. is getting into the movie business with a new deal the company announced Friday. During his keynote presentation at here, Sun CEO Scott McNealy is expected to announce that Sun and Home Box Office Inc., of New York, have struck a deal where the cable TV powerhouse will standardize on Java […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Sun Microsystems Inc. continues to take hits for its stewardship of Java, although the companys chief Java steward says all is well. At a roundtable here sponsored by Borland Software Corp., some industry observers and participants spoke of the possibility of fragmentation of Java and how Sun, through the Java Community Process (JCP), which […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Sun Microsystems Inc. is not waiting for the courts to help push Java out to the masses. At the here Wednesday, Sun announced Java OEM agreements with two major PC makers. During the morning keynote, both Richard Green, vice president of development platforms at Sun, and Jonathan Schwartz, executive vice president of software at […]

SAN FRANCISCO—SAP AG made a major Java splash at the here, announcing support for Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and releasing a new Java development environment. The Walldorf, Germany, company said SAP will support J2EE 1.3 in the SAP Web Application Server, and the enterprise resource planning giant also announced a new Java-based integrated development […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Tying into a major theme of the here this week, Oracle Corp. Tuesday previewed its new Application Development Framework, a feature of the companys next version of its Oracle9i JDeveloper tool that will enable developers to more easily develop enterprise Java applications. With simplicity in Java development a goal, Oracle ADF represents a pluggable […]