Darryl K. Taft

Microsoft Corp. Tuesday announced the availability of the beta version of its Content Management Server (CMS) 2002. The software giant said CMS 2002 offers significant enhancements over Content Management Server 2001, with key enhancements in authoring and administration tools, interoperability, and the developers environment, said Chris Ramsey, lead product manager for Microsoft Content Management Server. […]

Model N Inc., a provider of contract life cycle management solutions, Tuesday announced a new customer win for its contract life cycle management solution. Model N, of South San Francisco, Calif., announced that Guidant Corp., an Indianapolis-based provider of cardiovascular medical products, has selected Model N for Guidants strategic pricing initiative. The company said Guidants […]

Macromedia Inc. Tuesday announced the availability of Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX, its new server that unites communications and applications. Peter Ryce, San Francisco-based Macromedias senior director of product management and product marketing for rich media, said the new server integrates support for streaming media, real-time collaboration, and multiway video, audio and text messaging into […]

Microsoft Corp. is making another push to attract Java developers to its .Net platform. The Redmond, Wash., software company last week announced the availability of Visual J# .Net, a Java development tool for building applications and XML Web services on .Net Framework. The tools release rounds out Microsofts language offerings in its Visual Studio .Net […]

Ilog Inc. wants to push its business rules technology into Web services, a move that could make it easier for business users to manage and change policies without the help of programmers. To do it, Ilog is integrating its product lines. Later this month, the company will release the next version of its Java-based optimization […]

BEA Systems Inc. Monday announced BEA WebLogic Portal 7.0, the latest version of its portal software, which features native support for Web services. The San Jose, Calif., company said new administration tools in BEA WebLogic Portal 7.0 have been designed to consume and display Web services created in BEAs WebLogic Workshop, Microsoft SOAP (Simple Object […]

FileMaker Inc. on Tuesday will announce FileMaker Pro 6, a new version of its database software featuring XML import and export, new templates and tools, and enhanced capabilities to gather, manage and share information, the companys president said. Dominique Groupil, president of the Santa Clara, Calif., company, called the XML enhancements among the most notable […]

Compuware Corp. later this month will announce that its Java development environment will implement the Object Management Groups Model Driven Architecture, or MDA, in its entirety. Officials at Farmington Hills, Mich., company said Compuwares Java tool, OptimalJ, will implement MDA in its entirety by the middle of this month, a move that will provide flexibility […]

Compuware Corp. on Tuesday announced a new product for debugging Oracle stored procedures from within the Microsoft Visual Studio .Net development environment. Compuwares DevPartnerDB Debugger for Oracle for Microsoft Visual Studio .Net is a development tool for performing proactive analysis and debugging of PL/SQL. The product extends the Microsoft Visual Studio .Net debugging environment, said […]

Centerpost Corp. has rolled out a new release of its Web services-based communications platform, adding more integration capabilities and enhancing its user interface. Centerpost added more support for Web services standards to the seventh release of its SmartDelivery platform, which officials with the Chicago company said will ease the integration of a business back-end legacy […]