Darryl K. Taft

Borland Software Corp. generated $60.7 million in revenue in the third quarter, a 10 percent jump from the $55 million it accumulated during the same period last year. Net income for the quarter, which ended Sept. 30, rose to $5 million, up from $4.7 million for the third quarter of last year, officials of the […]

After much debate over its position among the Web services elite, Sun Microsystems Inc. will announce Thursday afternoon that it is joining the Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) organization in hopes of being elected as a member of the groups board of directors. Suns move comes a week after the WS-I announced that it is expanding […]

With a recent report on the database market saying the number of new applications and specialty databases will grow in the broadening market, object database vendors are touting deals for their products. In a recent report, the Boston-based Aberdeen Group predicted that the database market will top $10 billion by 2003 and that specialized databases […]

M7 Corporation Inc. and Novell Inc. are rolling out tools to help developers build and deploy Web services. M7 this month unveiled Version 2.0 of Application Assembly Platform, which offers an enterprise object repository, support for Web services and new workflow capabilities. The enterprise object repository lets developers define and reuse business rules, processes and […]

Software developers are finding new ways to use XML for integrating everything from data and Web services to applications for business process management and presentation. Early leaders of this trend include IBM, Cape Clear Software Inc. and Adobe Systems Inc., each of which is readying XML integration capabilities in upgraded products. IBMs WebSphere 5 application […]

Progress Software Corp. is acquiring Excelon Corp. for $24 million. Officials at Progress Software, a Beford, Mass.-based database and e-business company, said on Monday that they sought Excelons expertise in XML tools and data management software. Excelon is among a handful of key players in the XML database market. During a call with reporters and […]

Flashline Inc. on Monday will announce a new version of its software reuse platform, with collaboration and integration capabilities. The Cleveland-based company will announce Flashline Component Manager Enterprise Edition (CMEE) 3.2, which supports collaboration among software developers and enables them to integrate new and reusable software assets—such as components and code libraries—with existing frameworks and […]

Software development tool makers Rational Software Corp. and Compuware Corp. on Thursday announced a mixed bag of second-quarter earnings news. Rational reported a net loss of $19.4 million, while Compuware a net income of $33.8 million. Rational, of Cupertino, Calif., reported revenues of $154.5 million. For the same period a year ago, the company lost […]

The Web Services Interoperability Organization, or WS-I, on Thursday announced that its members have approved a proposal to expand its board of directors by two seats. The two new seats could open the door for Sun Microsystems Inc. to join the organization as a board member. Officials at Sun, of Santa Clara, Calif., have said […]

Security software vendors are answering the call with new products to address the emerging need to secure Web services. Netegrity Inc. on Tuesday announced the release of Netegrity TransactionMinder, the Waltham, Mass., companys new policy-based Web services security product. Deepak Taneja, chief technology officer at Netegrity, said TransactionMinder features authentication, authorization and auditing capabilities and […]