Clint Boulton

Oracle has issued a toolkit to help Microsoft programmers use Visual Studio .NET 2003 software to write Oracle Database 10g applications on the Windows operating system. Released as a beta, Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio .NET is a software plug-in that provides better integration between Oracle’s database and Visual Studio .NET, the Redmond, Wash., […]

UPDATED: In a move rumored for weeks, HP Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina has stepped down following disagreements with the board on how to govern the company. CFO Robert P. Wayman will her take her place as CEO immediately, but on an interim basis. Wayman has also been appointed to the board of directors and […]

UPDATED: In a move reflective of the industry trend to offer technology users more choice, e-business standards body OASIS has added two sets of royalty-free terms to its Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) policy. Members of OASIS committees may now work under the original Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory (RAND) mode, in which companies with IP could charge […]

IBM unveiled a new eServer Power5 system for less than $5,000, an offering for customers that use Unix systems to power their small-and medium-sized businesses, Like every pSeries server Big Blue has released since summer 2004, the p5 510 is based on the Armonk, N.Y., company’s 64-bit Power5 architecture, which includes virtualization technology adapted from […]

BEA Systems unveiled its latest WebLogic Communications Platform Monday, featuring a software suite geared to power services such as e-mail, video, voice, chat or gaming. The platform, previously known as Project Da Vinci, is runtime software tailored for telecommunications providers that want to offer customers cutting-edge technologies such as Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) and Radio Frequency Identification […]

Egenera Inc., one of the first companies to propose blade servers as an alternative to larger, massive machines, is striking back at rivals as it boosts virtualization capabilities in its blade management software. The launch comes as IBM and HP command roughly two-thirds of the market for commodity blades. So Egenera is aiming to grab […]

BEA Systems is expected to cozy up to one of its oldest and most trusted customer bases Monday with the release of a suite of software products for the telecommunications industry. The effort, code-named Project Da Vinci, began late last year. Sources familiar with the company said BEA is likely to release a version of […]

NEW YORK — Web services are increasingly becoming a key component of service-oriented architectures (SOAs) because of their ability to interoperate with several platforms, said a panel of distributed computing experts. However, there is still some rocky terrain to navigate before anyone will be able to really enjoy full SOA implementation. “Web services have brought […]

Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates repeated the company’s pledge to use XML as the key ingredient to make software more interoperable. In an executive letter, Gates emphasized Microsoft’s pledge to write applications that require less customization, testing and certification, a task some experts see as sort of a holy grail in programming. […]

OASIS has approved as a standard Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) version 3.0.2, which helps programmers create registries that let users locate Web services on a network. Backed by vendors, such as IBM , Microsoft and Computer Associates , UDDI helps users publish and find software services in a distributed computing model, such as […]

HP has brought new disaster recovery software to its mid-range arrays, refreshing the trend among storage vendors trying to fill in data protection gaps for medium-sized businesses. The new packages — Metrocluster, Continentalclusters and StorageWorks Cluster Extension EVA (enterprise virtual array) — are middleware layers that tie application services on HP arrays to clustered operating […]

NEW YORK — Microsoft and Sun Microsystems are closing the gap between them in an effort to speed the adoption of service-oriented architectures (SOA), a Sun official said at the Web Services on Wall Street 2005 conference here. Sun Distinguished Engineer Hal Jespersen said the long-time rivals have been steadily working on setting up federated […]