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- Microsoft Oslo shifting to the data side
- Last year, I heard Brian Loesgen compared Oslo, Microsoft's modeling strategy, to an onion, with many layers of features. Lately, it appears there is another layer to Oslo forming, which ties the platform closer to Microsoft's data programmability stack. Darryl Taft reveals that Microsoft has been shifting...
- Tags: Oslo, Microsoft Corp., Modeling, Darryl Taft, Research & Development, Business Operations, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
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- Analyst: 'you'll all be doing SOA in 18 months whether you plan to or not'
- eWeek's Darryl Taft is on a tear with all the good stories he's generating out of Microsoft's SOA confab taking place this week. He quotes Gartner analyst Nick Gall, who stated bluntly that "the frequency and amplitude of business change is increasing, 'and you're all going to...
- Tags: BPM, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Operational Planning, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-01-30
- Microsoft: 'we're bringing SOA to the masses'
- "Microsoft is bringing SOA to the masses," said Steven Martin, senior director of product management in Microsoft's Developer Division, at the vendor's latest SOA and Business Process confab. (Covered here by eWeek's Darryl Taft.) That's been the secret sauce all along. In recent years, there...
- Tags: SOA, Microsoft Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-01-29
- Can Ubuntu win the OS beauty pageant?
- Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has thrown down the gauntlet to his merry band of open source followers: Make Ubuntu as pretty and ultimately better looking than Apple's Mac OS. eWeek's Darryl Taft quotes Shuttleworth Techmeme: "The great task in front of...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth, Operating System, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- What if Microsoft had picked a different Chief Software Architect?
- Microsoft has been orchestrating carefully for the past few years the transition of Bill Gates from Chief Software Architect CSA and regular participant in product planning meetings, to "mere" Chairman. (Gates' actual "last day" is June 30.) But it turns out Microsoft may have been planning this...
- Tags: Chief Software Architect, Ray Ozzie, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Development Tools, Management, Software/Web Development, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Visual Studio 2008 coming next week
- The MSDN Subscriptions Weblog is telling us that Visual Studio 2008 will be available to subscribers early next week. Darryl Taft of eWeek has some additional information about the VS 2008 release with a supposed date of November 19th. Visual Studio 2008 has a number of features...
- Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, MSDN Subscriptions Weblog, Microsoft Development Tools, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2007-11-17
- Will Web 2.0 displace the WS-* protocols?
- eWeek's Darryl Taft finally brought the worlds of SOA and Web 2.0 together in an article loaded with practical examples and insights.For example, H&R Block -- which uses a lot of seasonal workers, especially in the weeks leading up to April 15th -- deployed SOA-connected AJAX portlets to more than...
- Tags: Web Services, Case Studies, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- OSGi gains momentum as .NET alternative at EclipseCon
- Excellent story by Darryl K. Taft at eWeek on the Open Services Gateway Initiative OSGi framework. Its worth a read.Ill be digging into this more this week at the conference, for sure.
- Tags: .NET, Agile Development, Apache, Developer Tools, Eclipse, Enterprise Java, Open Source, SOA, Software Development, Windows
- Blog posts 2007-03-06
- Analyst: Wall Street likes Microsoft's SOA message
- Wall Street may call the shots for which technologies run Main Street, but who runs Wall Streets own technologies? Wall Street firms have mainly the crown jewels of IBM and Sun Microsystems, but at least one analyst said Microsoft is also becoming a force to be reckoned with. As Darryl...
- Tags: Vendor Watch, Web Services, General
- Blog posts 2007-02-17
- IBM: Net's future is mobile middleware
- Maybe all you need to connect millions of mobile devices to the Internet is some snazzy middleware from IBM.Darryl Taft at eWeek reports:IBM Research is working on delivering a middleware system that will enable users to tap into the data on mobile devices to create a virtually unlimited pool of...
- Tags: IBM Corp., middleware, Mobile, Web Technology, Software Infrastructure, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-07
- Microsoft's Desktop Windows staff: We love Javascript. Microsoft's Mobile Windows staff: What's Javascript?
- When AJAX, otherwise known as Asynchronous Javascript and XML, first became all the rage mostly thanks to Google, Microsoft didn't waste anytime reminding AJAX-watchers that it pioneered the idea of mass-distributed AJAX-based applications with its browser-based version of Outlook (aka: Outlook Web Access or OWA for short). See Will the...
- Tags: ASP.NET AJAX, AJAX
- Blog posts 2006-10-24
- Speaking of the heavy lifting that Apex does, what about Flapjax?
- If Amazons Jeff Bezos had something to say about Apex, he might say "it handles muck so developers dont have to." I refer to muck as heavy lifting. Anybody remember the days when, in DOS, what was being shown on screen had to be painted one pixel at a time?...
- Tags: AJAX, Scripting languages, Flapjax, developer, Apex
- Blog posts 2006-10-16
- HP's big-time SOA entree
- The big fish keep eating the smaller fish who already ate even smaller fish. And sometimes a little "mercury" in the fish isn't such a bad thing. The two percent that Systinet Registry represents may have clinched...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mercury Interactive Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-07-27
- Apache's Tuscany on tap
- A number of vendors, including IBM and BEA, have lined up behind the Service Component Architecture SCA initiative announced the other week. SCA is designed to simplify the development of creating business services and Service Data Objects SDO for accessing data residing in multiple locations and formats. In other words,...
- Tags: Service Component Architecture
- Blog posts 2005-12-12
- eWeek rounds-up Vista's developer helpers
- Reporting from Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, eWeek's Darryl Taft has the deets see Vista creates developer opportunities on everything that Microsoft is doing in Vista for developers: WinFX Software Development Kit: Could be helpful to developers that are intimidated by the idea of managed...
- Tags: MSI, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Blog posts 2005-09-13
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