Darryl K. Taft

Macromedia Inc. Wednesday announced its first fiscal quarter 2003 financial results and recorded a loss of $4.3 million. The San Francisco company posted revenues of $84.2 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2002, down from $88.7 million for the same quarter a year ago. The $4.3 million loss compares with a loss of $111.8 […]

Compuware Corp. on Tuesday released its financial results for its fiscal first quarter, showing a significant drop in revenue. The Farmington Hill, Mich., software company warned last week that its financial numbers would fall short of projections. For the quarter ended June 30, Compuware reported revenues of $346.6 million, compared with $450.5 million in the […]

BEA Systems Inc. is improving its portal technology with native support for Web services. The San Jose, Calif., company last week announced that new administration tools in BEAs WebLogic Portal 7.0 are designed to display Web services created in BEAs WebLogic Workshop, Microsoft Corp.s Simple Object Access Protocol Toolkit clients and other tools. The product […]

GNOME 2.0 is a giant leap forward in the search for a viable Linux alternative to Windows, according to users and creators of the GNU Network Object Model Environment, but more work needs to be done on the technology. To further advance the environment, the GNOME Foundation has begun work on Version 2.2 and plans […]

Apple Computer Inc. executives late Monday refuted Microsoft Corp. claims that its not doing enough to promote and sell Mac OS X. “We do a tremendous amount of marketing on Mac OS X and Im proud of the progress weve made with the platform since it was introduced last May,” said Phil Schiller, senior vice […]

NTT Communications Corp., Japans largest long-distance phone service provider, is using IBMs WebSphere and DB2 technology to build its Universal Description, Discovery and Integration registry. NTT will build its public UDDI registry node using IBMs WebSphere and DB2 software. The company will operate it on the WebSphere Application Server and will use DB2 database software […]

Rogue Wave Software Inc. on Monday announced the availability of the beta version of its Web services infrastructure software. The Boulder, Colo., software development tools company announced that a beta version of its Project Ratchet is available on the companys Web site. Project Ratchet is the latest release supporting Rogue Waves Web services infrastructure strategy […]

Microsoft Corp. Friday reaffirmed its commitment to its partners, promising to invest $500 million into building and supporting its partner community. Speaking at the Microsoft Fusion 2002 conference of Microsoft partners in Los Angeles Friday, Allison Watson, vice president of Microsofts Worldwide Partner Sales and Marketing Group, said Microsoft has pledged to invest $500 million […]

Microsoft Corp. Wednesday announced the launch of the Microsoft .Net Architecture Center and the availability of the Visual Studio .Net Integration software development kit, providing enterprise customers with a resource center for architectural guidance and integration tools for enterprise developers building applications on the .Net platform. Microsofts moves are key to increased adoption of the […]

Genuitec LLC this week announced a new suite of application server plug-ins for IBMs WebSphere Application Developer, or WSAD. The suite is designed to enable developers to develop, deploy and debug applications using third-party J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) application servers with the same ease as the WebSphere server. The plug-ins feature user controls for […]