Darryl K. Taft

In the world of Web services development, cross-platform integration is still a struggle for many developers. To help ease that burden, tool vendors OpenLink Software Inc. and Candle Corp. are gearing up new products. OpenLink late last month announced that Version 3.0 of its Virtuoso data access and Web services middleware will use Ximian Inc.s […]

Microsoft Corp. Monday announced a new set of Visual Studio-based tools to help developers build business solutions based on the next version of Microsoft Office, code-named Office 11. Known as Visual Studio Tools for Office, the new offering is a set of tools, frameworks, Office integration solutions and customer-assistance solutions from Microsoft. The technology includes […]

John Swainson is general manager of IBMs Application Integration Middleware division, and is also known as a pioneer of the WebSphere application server. Version 5.0 of the server was announced last month, when Senior Editor Darryl Taft caught up with Swainson in Boston for an exclusive interview to talk about the new product, where it […]

IBM shook up the software and Web services development world Friday by acquiring Rational Software Corp. in a deal worth $2.1 billion–the companys largest acquisition since buying Lotus Development Corp. in 1995. The purchase gives IBM the “broadest support for the largest number of platforms and integrated development environments” in the industry, said Steve Mills, […]

BALTIMORE—U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motzs remarks during closing arguments in the preliminary injunction hearing here Thursday between Sun Microsystems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. offered an indication of his ideas of fair play. “Theres still something about this. … I called it a social issue, but its even a moral issue. You could be paid […]

BALTIMORE—After Sun Microsystems Inc. finished with its last witness, Microsoft Corp. Wednesday evening slogged through three witnesses and started on a fourth before calling it a day in the preliminary injunction hearing in the Sun Microsystems vs. Microsoft antitrust case here. Microsoft put on three of its executives to refute claims by Sun that Microsoft […]

Despite several hours of arguments and testimony from attorneys and witnesses, the judge hearing the preliminary injunction arguments in the Sun Microsystems Inc. versus Microsoft Corp. antitrust case managed to win the day at closing as much as he had at the start of the day. At the end of a very long day in […]

An expert witness for Sun Microsystems Inc. testified that Microsoft Corp. enjoys network effects advantages over Sun based on past anti-competitive acts that could cause the market for distributed application platforms to tip in favor of .Net over Java. However, when asked directly whether he expected the market to tip in favor of .Net, Dennis […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are scheduled to head into round two of their legal skirmish over Java when the two companies meet in court here Tuesday morning. The companies will be battling over Suns call for a preliminary injunction that would force Microsoft to ship a standard version of the Sun Java Virtual […]

BALTIMORE—U.S. District Court Judge J. Frederick Motz stole the show during Tuesday mornings preliminary injunction hearing in the Sun Microsystems vs. Microsoft antitrust case here. The judges questions to lawyers representing the two sides—Rusty Day of Day Casebeer Madrid & Batchelder, Suns lead counsel, and David Tulchin of Sullivan and Cromwell, for Microsoft—stood out during […]