Darryl K. Taft

A group of Web services heavyweights has announced a new set of security and policy specifications based on the Web Services-Security road map developed last April to help enterprises share information securely. The first in the set of specifications introduced by IBM and Microsoft Corp., along with BEA Systems Inc., RSA Security Inc., VeriSign Inc. […]

IT experts were as split over the possible impact of Sun Microsystems Inc.s Java victory in federal court as were Sun and Microsoft Corp. Sun received a preliminary injunction from U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz, in Baltimore, who ruled two days before Christmas that Microsoft infringed on Suns copyright for its intellectual property and […]

Microsoft Corp. is seeking to make XML-based Web services easier to develop with the delivery of several new tools and, ultimately, a new XML-based language optimized to handle data rather than objects. The Redmond, Wash., company last month delivered three tools to help users develop around XML. Perhaps holding more promise for developers, however, particularly […]

The end of the year, which typically signals slowdown in the technology industry, instead saw a flurry of activity in the Web applications and Web services standards space. Closing out the year, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) last month released the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 1.0 to help developers make Web browsers and […]

Top engineers across the board say the computer industry will be the first to recover among the engineering-related fields. According to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), top engineers across a variety of disciplines said they believe the computer industry would recover from the current economic slump before other technology industries, such as […]

Two computer industry trade associations have weighed in with requests to appeal the ruling in the landmark Microsoft antitrust case. The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) and the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) have jointly filed a motion with the U.S. District Court in Washington asking for permission to appeal the settlement between […]

Sun Microsystems Inc.s announcement last week to bundle BEA Systems Inc.s WebLogic application server with Solaris 9 is either a retreat or an advance, depending on whom you talk to. According to officials at Sun, in Santa Clara, Calif., the new pairing was created to take on IBM and its WebSphere application server. “As a […]

A federal judge gave Sun Microsystems Inc. a big Christmas present and Microsoft a coal in its stocking Monday afternoon, by granting Sun the preliminary injunction the company asked for in its private antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz ruled that Microsoft both infringed on Suns copyright for its intellectual […]

The Department of the Navy has implemented a new policy for using XML throughout the service. The Navys chief information officer, David Wennergren, signed off on the policy last Friday. The Navy first established a vision for using XML in its systems in March. The Navys vision document said it would “fully exploit Extensible Markup […]

Web services giants IBM and Microsoft Corp. Wednesday announced, along with BEA Systems Inc., RSA Security Inc., VeriSign Inc. and SAP AG, a new set of security and policy specifications based on the Web Services Security road map that Microsoft and IBM developed last April to help enterprises share information securely. The first in the […]