Darryl K. Taft

While the beta of Microsoft Corp.s Visual Studio .Net Version 1.1 development platform is receiving generally positive reviews, there is concern among developers regarding the softwares backward compatibility and footprint. Version 1.1 of the platform, code-named Everett, synchronizes the VS .Net development environment and .Net Framework with the next version of the operating system, .Net […]

Bowstreet Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. are among several vendors looking to ease the development, deployment, management and security of portals. Netegrity Inc. and Interwoven Inc. last week also rolled out portal development products. At Gartner Inc.s ITxpo in Orlando, Fla., Bowstreet announced its Bowstreet Portlet Factory for WebSphere, which enables developers to quickly create […]

Kontiki Inc. and Digital Fountain Inc. are offering new products designed to improve security and performance when delivering data over the Internet. Kontiki, of Sunnyvale, Calif., last week announced its DMS (Delivery Management System), which enables users to securely publish, deliver and track digital video and documents down to the desktop level. Meanwhile, Digital Fountain, […]

CollabNet Inc. Monday announced that it is providing its collaborative software development environment to International Swaps and Derivatives Association Inc. for collaborative development of the Financial products Markup Language, or FpML. Brisbane, Calif.-based CollabNet is providing its SourceCast collaborative software development platform to ISDA to enable FpML standard developers to work in different locations and, […]

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers on Monday is upgrading its standard for building and managing Web sites. The standard, known as IEEE 2001, features guidelines for developing Web sites, including what type of information should be featured on all sites, such as who created it, the sites legal address and date of last […]

Companies continue to roll out tools to help developers build and deploy Web services. M7 Corporation Inc., of Cupertino, Calif., this week announced version 2.0 of its M7 Application Assembly Platform, which features an enterprise object repository, support for Web services and new workflow capabilities, said Zack Urlocker, vice president of marketing at M7. Urlocker […]

Borland Software Corp. is acquiring Starbase Corp. in a cash deal worth $24 million, the companys second acquisition in a week. The addition of Starbase brings configuration management software expertise into Borlands product mix and helps to extend the development toolmakers coverage of the application development lifecycle, the company said on Wednesday. Starbase, in Santa […]

Borland Software Corp. on Monday announced the acquisition of BoldSoft MDE Aktiebolag, a design-driven software technology provider, in an all-cash deal. In the deal, Borland will get Stockholm-based BoldSoft along with its software development technology, which Borland will integrate into its line of development tool technologies. Borland, of Scotts Valley, Calif., would not disclose financial […]

Excelon Corp. is beefing up its support of XML and Microsoft Corp.s .Net platform in new versions of its XML database engine and its IDE. The Burlington, Mass., company last week announced the availability of XIS (Extensible Information Server) 3.12. XIS 3.12 adds support for .Net for interoperability between the .Net and Java 2 Enterprise […]

An emerging rift among supporters of a proposed Web services security specification could slow the ratification of the standard and hamstring enterprises trying to settle on a way to make Web services transactions safer. Microsoft Corp. and IBM, which, along with VeriSign Inc., published the original Web Services-Security specification, are now in two camps that […]