Darryl K. Taft

Is Sun Microsystems Inc. as much a friend to open source as it claims to be? Late last year Sun amended its Java Community Process (JCP) program to accommodate demands of the open-source community and enable organizations to license the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) compatibility test suite without licensing the source code, which was […]

More Linux developers are coming from Windows backgrounds than from Unix, according to a recent study. Evans Data Corp., of Santa Cruz, Calif., said the results of a recent survey the company conducted show that more than half of the new Linux developers surveyed said they used to be primarily Windows developers—to the tune of […]

WASHINGTON—The head of Microsoft Corp.s Shared Source Initiative Tuesday said he foresees a world of coexistence where no one software development and distribution model wins. “I see a world of coexistence,” said Jason Matusow, program manager for Microsofts Shared Source Initiative (SSI), which is the companys response to the open-source movement where Microsoft allows key […]

Health Management Associates Inc. is using Web services to deliver medical information to its doctors and staff in hospitals the company owns across 14 states. The companys recently deployed Physicians Access application provides real-time access to patient information to some 280 doctors in 44 hospitals in nonurban areas of the Southeast and Southwest, as well […]

In a move designed to attract more developers to its vision of Web services and application development, Sun Microsystems Inc. is developing enhancements to the Java language that provide a more Visual Basic-like experience. The goal will crystallize in June at the companys JavaOne conference with the likely announcement of a Java-based tool that competes […]

Sun Microsystems Inc.s nominee for the board of the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) made a strong case for why the Unix systems vendor should win one of two available board seats. WS-I will announce the winners at the end of March. Mark Hapner, Suns lead architect for Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and chief […]

Microsoft Corp., IBM, BEA Systems Inc. and Tibco Software Inc. Thursday announced two new Web services specifications that advance Web services reliability, but that also seemingly compete with existing Web services reliability efforts put forth by Sun Microsystems Inc., Oracle Corp. and others. The two new specifications are known as WS-ReliableMessaging and WS-Addressing, and they […]

Iona Technologies Inc. has announced its Mobile Orchestrator, a Web services-based business process integration tool built in alliance with Intel Corp. to support Intels Centrino mobile technology. Ionas Mobile Orchestrator fits into Intels Occasionally Connected Computing model in that it is a “store-and-forward” Web services application that enables mobile workers to work just as efficiently […]

The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) has formed a new technical committee to define Web services management. The new OASIS Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) Technical Committee will seek to define a standard for Web services management, which many consider among the last obstacles in front of widespread adoption of Web […]

Sybase Inc. last week announced the latest incarnation of its RAD tool, PowerBuilder 9.0. The Dublin, Calif., company made the announcement at Giga Information Group Inc.s Application Development and Integration conference in Orlando, Fla. Sybase will ship PowerBuilder 9.0 March 24. Company officials said the new release is the foundation for its 4GLplus initiative, which […]