Paul Krill

Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp.'s chairman and chief software architect, preached an upbeat vision of technology in a keynote speech here on Friday evening.

Sun Microsystems Inc. on Monday will ship Sun ONE Identity Server 6.0, an upgrade to its network identity software that adds support for the Liberty Alliance specification, enabling users to authenticate to multiple Web sites outside a firewall.

Setting the stage for another potential battle over Web services standardization, Sun Microsystems Inc., Fujitsu Ltd., and Oracle Corp. on Jan. 14 plan to announce a specification for Web services reliability without participation from rivals IBM Corp. and Microsoft Corp.

Seeking to establish an industry standard for Web site scripting, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on Thursday published the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML specification as a W3C Recommendation, constituting an endorsement as a W3C standard.

Developers with an outfit called the MaVerick Maintenance Team are building an open-source version of a Pick-like MultiValue database, with the project founder saying this data management format remains superior to SQL databases that have succeeded it.

An upcoming version of the Web services specification SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) has moved a step closer to finalization and may be completed by March, according to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

The OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) consortium on Tuesday announced that members have formed a technical committee to develop standards for Web services-based language translation services.

Members of OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) on Monday announced formation of a committee to advance an XML-based standard for the exchange of tax-related information.