Darryl K. Taft

Some industry leaders are looking to leverage Web services to move the advantages of grid computing from the academic realm to the commercial arena. At the Global Grid Forum last week, IBM announced its Open Grid Services Architecture, or OGSA, which incorporates technology from the academic grid computing consortium, the Globus Project, to unite the […]

With portals growing more strategic to both application server providers and users, portal software companies are delivering tools that make it easier to build portals and applications that populate them. Plumtree Software Inc. next week will announce Plumtree Studio Server, a development environment that enables users to build what the company calls “gadget Web services” […]

BEA Systems Inc. opens its developer conference on Monday with a new tool, new application server technology and a message intended to woo more developers to its Java application server. At the conference in San Diego, BEA will officially announce and release to beta its much-anticipated Java development environment called WebLogic Work-shop—formerly code-named Cajun. BEA […]

Iona Corp. and Microsoft Corp. will host a two-day forum this week to test interoperability in Web services offerings from various vendors. The tests, which are scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, will look at WSDL (Web Services Description Language) interoperability between SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)-based Web services toolkits. Joining IONA and Microsoft in the […]

BEA Systems Inc. saw its net income in the fourth quarter drop more than $8.5 million over the same time last year. Net income fell from $19 million in Q4 2001 to $10.6 million in the quarter that ended Jan. 31. At the same time, revenues for the San Jose, Calif., fell from $256 million […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. is integrating its software platforms for grid computing and services on demand. Sun has integrated its Sun Grid Engine software with its Sun ONE (Open Net Environment) to facilitate the delivery of services on demand, the Palo Alto, Calif., company said. The Sun Grid Engine is Suns distributed resource management tool for […]

Versata Inc., a provider of software and services that automate the business logic and processes that power enterprise applications, on Friday announced it had joined the Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) Organization. The Oakland, Calif., companys announcement indicates its commitment to the hot area of Web services and Web services deployment, company officials said. The WS-I […]

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Tuesday formally announced Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, touting it as perhaps the best product available for developing and delivering Web services. Gates kicked off the VSLive 2002 Conference in San Francisco by calling Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework two of Microsofts most important products—products with which the company […]

A network of major players in the food service arena last week tapped Sun Microsystems Inc.s Web services initiative as the tool for reducing costs and squeezing inefficiencies from the supply chains in the arena. EFS Network Inc. has based its supply chain solution on Sun ONE (Open Network Environment), employing a suite of business […]

With businesses still feeling the economic squeeze, developers are gravitating toward reusable components as a quicker and easier alternative to doing their own programming. Major industry players, meanwhile, are poised to take advantage of this trend to enhance developer loyalty to their products. With the launch of Visual Studio .Net this week, Microsoft Corp. will […]