Darryl K. Taft

Borland Software Corp. made a couple of moves in its executive ranks to integrate its new TogetherSoft acquisition and shore up its Java business unit. The Scotts Valley, Calif., company Monday night named Tony de la Lama, formerly vice president and general manager of Borlands Java Business Unit, the new vice president and general manager […]

As the poem goes, “Water, water everywhere … .” If Mike Plusch and Christopher Fry have their way, thats how the development world will be, but there will be plenty to drink. Plusch and Fry are the co-founders of Clear Methods Inc., a Cambridge, Mass., startup creating the Water language and Steam, the execution engine […]

An IDE could be the missing link thats keeping Linux from being widely deployed in the enterprise. At least thats what SuSE Linux AG and a growing number of other Linux vendors contend. In an effort to turn that around, Linux providers, which have lacked a deeply integrated tool suite of the type Windows developers […]

IBM announced its grid computing vision Monday, launching 10 new grid solutions in five key markets. The Armonk, N.Y., company followed its LinuxWorld announcements of last week with a new push to drive grid computing beyond its scientific and technical computing roots and into the mainstream of commercial business enterprises. IBM is introducing 10 grid […]

Software AG Inc. has announced a new version of its Tamino XML Server with better performance, enhanced support for developers and new industry standards support. Reston, Va.-based Software AG announced Tamino 4.1 Thursday. Tamino is the companys native XML server for solutions such as enterprise content management, data exchange, digital libraries, Web services and mobile […]

The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) Thursday announced the formation of a new technical committee to develop a universal global framework aimed at helping law enforcement agencies share criminal and terrorist evidence. In a move targeted at helping those agencies involved in the homeland defense effort, OASIS is putting its XML […]

Borland Software Corp. announced Tuesday a new version of its Java 2 Enterprise Edition application server and a new performance solution for J2EE applications. Borland Enterprise Server 5.2 features productivity enhancements for developers and better performance, according to company officials. New in Version 5.2 are enhanced integration with the Borland JBuilder 8 Java development tool; […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. Wednesday announced an array of new products at LinuxWorld, not the least of which is the availability of the Sun ONE Application Server 7 and Sun ONE Directory Server 5.1 on Linux. At the show in New York, the Santa Clara, Calif., Unix systems maker added to its software stack, now offering […]

The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) standards body Wednesday announced the first in a series of XML.org Focus Areas to enable users to deliver and access domain-specific content on XML standards. The first three areas in the series focus on insurance, human resources and printing and publishing. These Focus Areas are […]

A federal judge Tuesday formally ordered Microsoft Corp. to start shipping Sun Microsystems Inc.s Java with Windows, an order the software giant said it will appeal. U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz officially entered the preliminary injunction just more than a month after the two parties argued the issue in his court. Motz decided in […]