Darryl K. Taft

NEW ORLEANS—Bowne Global Solutions is helping Microsoft Corp. move Visual Studio .Net into the global market. BGS, a Parsippany, N.J., subsidiary of Bowne & Co., localized Microsoft Visual Studio .Net into eight languages: French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Korean. In what the company said was one of the largest such […]

NEW ORLEANS—Fidesic Corp. and Captura Inc. have teamed up to make the promise of Web services a reality in the electronic invoicing and payment arena using technology from Microsoft Corp. Bellevue, Wash.-based Fidesic Corp., a Bellevue, Wash., company that develops electronic invoicing and payment (EIP) systems, and Captura Inc., a Kirkland, Wash., provider of Web-based […]

Some industry observers said they believe Web services, with their open standards, could eventually replace Java technology. But at the JavaOne developer conference in San Francisco late last month, Sun Microsystems Inc. and its supporters said that Java will play an important role in the development of Web services and that the key will be […]

WASHINGTON—Microsoft Corp. kept up its courtroom attack against key rivals Thursday, pressuring a Palm Inc. executive with claims that Palm tried to strike deals with Microsoft competitors to the detriment of the software giant and even to make a deal with Microsoft for a cash payment that would help Palm reverse-engineer Microsoft technology. Microsoft attorney […]

WASHINGTON—Microsoft Corp. isnt the only company that tries to use its size and power to advantage, attorneys for the Redmond, Wash., software giant attempted to prove in U.S. District Court here on Thursday. America Online Vice President John Borthwick took the stand, resuming a second day of testifying Thursday during the antitrust hearing between Microsoft […]

The Apache Software Foundation in February took Sun Microsystems Inc. to task for hindering open-source implementations through rules associated with the workings of the Java Community Process. The foundation said the Palo Alto, Calif., company focused on agreements related to Suns JSRs (Java Specification Requests), which are necessary to implement Java in various systems, architectures […]

SAN FRANCISCO–Sun Microsystems Inc. is aggressively expanding its Java technology in multiple directions, with plans for wireless, Web services and peer-to-peer applications. One project, code-named Monty, is designed to increase Java wireless performance by delivering a JVM (Java virtual machine), based on Suns Connected Limited Device Configuration, for low-end mobile devices. A second JVM, the […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Like its key competitors, Sun Microsystems Inc. knows the way to the riches in the computing industry is through developers, and the Java originator is looking to substantially increase its developer base. Doug Kaewert, vice president of Suns Developer Network group, told eWEEK that Sun is looking at a target of 5 million developers […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. pulled out all the stops in touting this years JavaOne developer conference in San Francisco as a paean to Web services, with new support for Web services on its low-end Java 2 Micro Edition platform and a road map for delivering Web services support in Java 2 Enterprise Edition. Richard Green, Suns […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Much of the talk at this years JavaOne developer conference will center around Javas push into Web services and its escalating support in the wireless world. However, some see Sun Microsystems Inc.s olive branch to the open source community as the highlight of the show. “J2EEs [Java 2 Enterprise Editions] support for Web services […]