Darryl K. Taft

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

IBM Corp. Monday announced a version of its WebSphere application server optimized for the companys zSeries mainframe systems. WebSphere Application Server for z/OS Version 5 will become available later this week and supports the major Web services and Java standards, including the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Web Services Description Language (WSDL), Universal Description, Discovery […]

Several Microsoft Corp. partners announced support for the new version of Microsofts flagship application development environment. Microsoft Thursday officially announced the availability of Visual Studio .Net 2003, along with the availability of version 1.1 of the .Net Framework added into new Windows Server 2003 operating system. (See eWEEK Labs Walk-Through of Visual Studio .Net 2003.) […]

JNBridge LLC Wednesday announced the release of a new version of its Java-to-.Net interoperability tool for software developers. Boulder, Colo.-based JNBridge announced JNBridgePro 1.3, which enables Java developers to write applications in their familiar environment and have that code run with .Net-based applications, the company said. The product supports the integration of .Net code and […]

When Microsoft Corp. officially releases Windows Server 2003 Thursday, it will do so with .Net Framework 1.1 embedded in the operating system. But what does that give developers? According to some, very little. Thats because .Net Framework 1.1 does nothing in relation to the operating system code, they say. “There is a difference between a […]

Sybase Inc. last week released beta code for Pocket PowerBuilder, a scaled-down version of the companys application development platform aimed at devices. The Dublin, Calif., company said Pocket PowerBuilder will let PowerBuilder users leverage their skills on the platform and build mobile and wireless applications that run on Microsoft Corp.s Windows CE operating system devices. […]

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.-based market research firm that specializes in the public sector, said federal spending on IT products and services will grow to $68.2 billion in 2008, up […]

Some of the vendors in the Web services arena are looking at the integrated service environment (ISE) as a new way to help developers create applications from services. Gartner Inc. has introduced a Gartner Magic Quadrant report on the ISE market, listing companies such as BEA Systems Inc., WebPutty Inc., Novell Inc., Bowstreet and M7 […]

IBM, Microsoft Corp. and BEA Systems Inc. are on tap to submit the Business Processing Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS) specification to the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems (OASIS), marking yet another standard for orchestrating Web services. Sources said the specification is all but in the hands of OASIS, except for […]

The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS- I ) Wednesday announced two tools for testing the interoperability of the WS-I Basic Profile. The new tools, called the Web Service Communication Monitor and the Web Service Profile Analyzer, come in both Java and C# flavors and were developed by the WS-Is Test Tools working group, WS-I officials […]