Darryl K. Taft

The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) Wednesday announced the nominations for two openings on the organizations board of directors. WS-I officials said representatives from Cape Clear Software Inc., Nokia Corp., SeeBeyond Technology Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., VeriSign Inc. and webMethods Inc. have been nominated for election to the organizations board of directors. The limited number […]

In what one executive called giving back to its roots, Sun Microsystems Inc. Monday announced a program to donate $1 billion worth of software to educational and research institutions. The Santa Clara, Calif., company announced its Sun Education Software, or EduSoft, Portfolio at the Worldwide Education and Research Conference in San Francisco Monday. The portfolio […]

The race is on to deliver services-oriented architectures, and two vendors are taking contrasting approaches to providing such capabilities and empowering developers. Accenture Inc., in New York, this week plans to announce a Web services platform called Accenture Web Services Platform, built with Avanade Inc. The approach is to deliver a predeveloped and pretested software […]

BEA Systems Inc. reported Thursday that its profits more than tripled in its fourth fiscal quarter on a rise in revenue over last year. San Jose, Calif., based BEA reported net income of $35 million for the quarter ended January 31, 2003, up from $10.6 million for the same period a year ago. The company […]

IBM announced the completion of its $2.1 billion acquisition of Rational Software Corp. Friday, making Rational an IBM brand. The deal, made official at the close of the market Thursday and announced before the market opened Friday, makes Rational the fifth brand in the IBM Software Group, next to WebSphere, DB2, Lotus and Tivoli, the […]

Microsoft Corp. Thursday announced a series of initiatives aimed at strengthening its relationship with the academic community, including new versions of its software, Shared Source licenses to source code, and research grants. Microsoft announced a new version of its flagship development platform targeted at the academic world—Visual Studio .Net 2003 Academic Edition—which the company will […]

Recognizing the emerging adoption of its open-source Java application server, JBoss Group LLC announced Tuesday a new program to help its developer community grow even further. Atlanta-based JBoss Group announced the JBoss Preferred Affiliates Program, which includes independent software vendors who are integrating their products with the open-source JBoss J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition)-based application […]

IBM introduced new configurations of its application server and tools, new subscription pricing, partner-oriented programs, and new Web services-focused initiatives at its PartnerWorld event in New Orleans this week. At the companys annual fete for its partners, IBM Monday announced two additions to its WebSphere 5 application server line of products: the IBM WebSphere Application […]

The Extensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) has been ratified as an open standard by a major standards body. The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) announced Tuesday that its members had approved XACML as a standard. XACML is a security standard for expressing XML policies for information access over the Internet. […]

Former Macromedia Chief Technology Officer Jeremy Allaire has landed at General Catalyst Partners, a venture capital firm. Allaire joins the Cambridge, Mass., company as a technologist in residence, company officials said. In his new role, Allaire will help the firm identify investment opportunities in the enterprise software and Web application areas, as well as work […]