Darryl K. Taft

Despite the best efforts to come to agreement on Web security standards, two leading standards bodies can best say they have made a start on moving to a common set of standards. At the XML Web Services One Conference in Boston, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) and the Worldwide Web […]

Palm Inc.s Palm Solutions Group has teamed with BEA Systems Inc. to announce a long-term strategic relationship to deliver Web services to Palm-based handheld devices. Palm will develop tools and a device-side software suite for simplifying development and deployment of mobile Web services to extend enterprise applications on Palm handhelds, said the San Jose, Calif.-based […]

The TowerGroup Inc. Tuesday reported that Web services have the potential to alter the business environment and competitive landscape with the financial services market, but that standardization and the development of new protocols remain a roadblock. In a study titled “The Networked Financial Institution: Connections for a Successful Business Strategy,” the group said financial services […]

Borland Software Corp. is teaming with IBM, BEA Systems Inc. and Parasoft Corp. to extend the reach of its technologies. Borland and IBM last week announced a global distribution and marketing agreement to deliver some of their key Windows and Linux development technologies in bundles. Under the agreement, Borland and IBM will link IBMs DB2 […]

With the number of Web services standards becoming an alphabet soup, enterprises are looking for assurance that the myriad specifications are interoperable. The Web Services Interoperability organization, or WS-I, is taking steps to help. The WS-I recently finished an internal version of its first set of guidelines—or profiles—called WSBasic, designed to assist enterprises in developing […]

Although working in lock step with partners on every other important Web services standard, Microsoft Corp. on Monday took a step on its own to advance Web services capabilities. The company announced the availability of the technical preview for the Microsoft Web Services Development Kit (WSDK), which provides the tools developers need to build advanced […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Showing how much the two companies now appear to be working together on issues from Web services to security standards, IBM shared the floor with Microsoft Corp. at the IBM SHARE conference here this week. At SHARE, IBMs annual software user conference, Microsoft executives talked up the forthcoming hardware/software/services bundle for systems management that […]

Microsoft Corp. Thursday formally outlined the road map for future versions of its Visual Studio .Net development tool and the .Net Framework, including ones that take advantage of Windows .Net Server and the next version of SQL Server, code-named Yukon. Officials said the Redmond, Wash., software company plans to synchronize the next version of Visual […]

Rational Software Corp. made a slew of announcements at its user conference this week, adding new products in several areas and solidifying its line of application development tools for the enterprise. At its conference in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., Rational announced new quality assurance technology for developers with a new version of Rational Test RealTime […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. will continue to make a push for developers and customers with new Linux offerings and open-source initiatives, according to the companys new head of software. Jonathan Schwartz, who last week announced the key players in his organization, said Suns software division will take aim at the competition in the burgeoning Web services […]