Darryl K. Taft

Borland Software Corp. this week will release new tools and other technologies that reinforce the companys independent position among development platforms. The Scotts Valley, Calif., software developer will ship the latest version of its Java development tool, JBuilder 9, and Janeva, a new solution for integrating .Net-based applications with J2EE- (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) […]

The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards last week formally announced the formation of a technical committee to promote a standard for interoperable business processes and business process execution for Web services orchestration. The committee is known as the OASIS Web Services Business Process Execution Language, or WSBPEL, technical committee. The group, led […]

BEA Systems Inc. and Siebel Systems Inc. last week announced an expansion of their partnership to jointly deliver integration solutions. BEA, of San Jose, Calif., and Siebel, of San Mateo, Calif., said they will support each others integration solutions, with BEA supporting Siebels UAN (Universal Application Network) out of the box and Siebel supporting BEAs […]

A new survey of developers shows that existing Visual Basic developers are moving to Microsofts upgraded Visual Basic .Net as well as to Java and other language alternatives to build their applications going forward. A survey to be released Tuesday by Evans Data Corp., Santa Cruz, Calif., shows that 43 percent of developers surveyed who […]

IBM Corp. Thursday announced a set of software offerings to bolster the companys e-business on-demand strategy. Much of the new functionality will revolve around IBMs WebSphere application server, including the expansion of an agreement with Akamai Technologies Inc., Cambridge, Mass., to accelerate the “on demand” nature of IBMs offering by speeding up response time to […]

The SCO Group Inc. Wednesday announced its new Web services strategy including a framework known as SCOx that is geared at bringing SCOs developers, resellers and small-to-medium (SMB) business customers running SCO Unix and Linux to the world of Web services. The Lindon, Utah-based operating systems and business solutions company said the majority of the […]

The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems (OASIS) is poised to announce the formation of a technical committee to promote a standard for interoperable business processes and business process execution for Web services orchestration. The new technical committee, to be announced as early as Tuesday, is known as the OASIS Web Services Business […]

In the shadows of the release of its major new server operating system, Microsoft Corp. last week also released a new version of its core application development environment. The Redmond, Wash., company announced availability of Visual Studio .Net 2003, along with the availability of Version 1.1 of .Net Framework, which has been added to the […]

In the two months since closing its acquisition of Rational Software Corp., IBM has identified several gems from its Research division that promise to pay short- and long-term dividends for enterprise developers. Following the merger, Rational Chief Scientist Grady Booch was assigned to serve as liaison between Rational and IBM Research. So far, hes identified […]

Despite the economic downturn, spending in the federal sector continues to grow, spurred by homeland security initiatives and e-government, according to a recent research report. Input Inc., a Chantilly, Va., market research company that specializes in the public sector, said federal spending on IT products and services will grow to $68.2 billion in 2008, up […]