Darryl K. Taft

Serena Software Inc. has struck a deal to acquire TeamShare Inc., a developer of collaborative software development solutions. San Mateo, Calif.-based Serena Monday said it will acquire Colorado Springs, Colo.-based TeamShare in a transaction valued at $18 million. Serena, which sells change management solutions that automate changes to enterprise code and content, bolsters its product […]

After resolving more than 400 issues and identifying seven interoperable implementations, the W3Cs XML Protocol Working Group last week released SOAP 1.2 for final review as a standard. The proposed Simple Object Access Protocol 1.2 recommendation consists of SOAP 1.2 Messaging Framework, SOAP 1.2 Adjuncts and a primer, said World Wide Web Consortium officials. David […]

In the software industry, Microsoft Corp. may own the desktop, but IBM owns just about everything else. The Armonk, N.Y., company, which hatched its Software Group 10 years ago, has grown to become the second-largest software provider in the world, behind Microsoft. The reason, according to company executives and industry observers, is due almost exclusively […]

Two Web services management software suppliers announced new products, approaching the issue of managing Web services from two different perspectives. Both Swingtide Inc., Portsmouth, N.H., and Blue Titan Software Inc., San Francisco, announced new Web services management solutions, with Swingtide offering a more passive solution and Blue Titan delivering a more active Web services management […]

Amazon.com Inc. Monday announced three milestones in its Web services initiative: a new tool kit, an enhanced Web site for developers and the registration of 25,000 developers in its developer program. The Seattle-based company released its Amazon Web Services Software Development Kit 3.0 as a free downloadable kit to enable developers to build applications on […]

After years of bitter battles with the Object Management Group, Microsoft Corp. may be poised to rejoin the consortium to make use of the OMGs architecture expertise. Unisys Corp. has been brokering a thaw in the relationship between Microsoft and the Needham, Mass., standards body that had become strained while Microsoft was still a member […]

After resolving more than 400 issues and identifying seven interoperable implementations, the World Wide Web Consortiums (W3C) XML Protocol Working Group this week released the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) 1.2 for final review as a standard. The SOAP 1.2 proposed recommendation consists of the SOAP 1.2 Messaging Frameworks, SOAP 1.2 Adjuncts and a primer, […]

In an unexpected move, Sun Microsystems Inc. said it will join the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) Web Services Business Process Execution Language technical committee. A Sun spokesman told eWEEK that Sun will be joining the WSBPEL technical committee and will be in attendance at the first face-to-face meeting of the […]

TIBCO Software Inc. Wednesday announced it will lend a hand to Hewlett-Packard Co. to help HP deliver a Web services-based process management system to support its Adaptive Enterprise strategy. TIBCO and HP, both based in Palo Alto, Calif., said the new Web services solution will benefit both companies customers by better enabling them to respond […]

Q-Link Technologies Inc. Tuesday announced a new version of its application development platform that features component assembly and integration capabilities and enables new or less experienced Java developers to build enterprise Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) applications. Version 5.0 of the Q-Link platform was announced at the Gartner Inc. Integration and Web Services conference in […]