Darryl K. Taft

Java development tool maker VisiComp Inc. on Monday announced a new version of its RetroVue debugger, which it calls a Total Recall debugger for Java. Ron Hughes, CEO of the Felten, Calif., company, said unlike conventional debugging tools, RetroVue keeps track of every operation executed by the program being debugged and thus enables developers to […]

Striking a blow in the battle for the enterprise developer, Sun Microsystems Inc. last week announced the Java Verification Program for the enterprise. Glen Martin, a senior manager in Suns Java software division, said the programverifies applications to help ensure that they can run on any application server based on Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) […]

REDMOND, WASH.—Microsoft Corp. executives told investors Thursday the company is poised to take advantage of its leadership position in finances, technology and people skills to carry into the next year with a flourish. Chief Financial Officer John Connors said the company grew its net income by 7 percent last year and gained more than 5,000 […]

REDMOND, WASH.—Wrapping up his companys annual investor conference, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates waxed philosophical and discussed a range of topics with a host of dinner guests gathered round his table. Gates reiterated that he is in the business for the long haul. “I expect to do this for a long time,” he said. “We change […]

REDMOND, Wash.—The long-term outlook for the high-tech industry is good, and Microsoft Corp. will be at the forefront of it, according to Chief Software Architect and Chairman Bill Gates. Speaking at the companys annual financial analyst meeting here Thursday, Gates said Microsofts position in the enterprise was strengthening, due to its server capabilities and leading […]

A year into its development, the effort to create an open-source version of Microsoft Corp.s .Net platform is beginning to bear fruit. The Mono Project has delivered 520,000 lines of code, including a fast x86 run-time engine, a self-hosting C# compiler that can compile its class libraries and better development tools for the GNOME (GNU […]

Borland Software Corp. is beefing up its Linux development tool this week with new support for C++, along with existing support for Borlands Delphi. Borlands Kylix 3, which will be unveiled Tuesday, delivers new functionality to the Scotts Valley, Calif., companys Linux tool, including expanded support for Web services and compliance with Web services standards, […]

Akamai Technologies Inc. Wednesday reported its second quarter 2002 financial results showing a loss, though smaller than that of the same period a year ago. The Cambridge, Mass., company posted a net loss of $42.2 million, or $0.38 per share, compared with a net loss for the first quarter 2002 of $59.1 million, or $0.54 […]

Microsoft Corp. saw fourth-quarter revenues jump 10 percent, to $7.25 billion, fueled in large part by high demand for its Windows XP operating system and for enterprise servers, according to officials. The Redmond, Wash., software giant said on Thursday that net income and earnings quarter ending June 30 were $1.53 billion and $0.28. For the […]

July seems to be a popular month for software developers to go to court to protect their intellectual property. Tuesday saw lawsuits from Cable & Wireless USA Inc. in the content delivery network software space and Informatica Corp. in the business analytics software space. These suits followed one involving Compuware Corp. and IBM that came […]