May 7, 2012

In November 2010, Heroku was a respectable PaaS startup with an impressive 100,000 apps — all written in Ruby. Eighteen months later, the cloud development service is now part of

Google has announced the addition of several new capabilities for its Docs Suite that should make it easier for developers to extend the capabilities of the cloud computing service. Devs

Open source heavyweight Red Hat has released the source code for OpenShift, its platform as a service (PaaS) for Java, PHP, Python, Perl and Ruby applications. That means developers can

The jury is currently deliberating its verdict in the first phase of the Oracle v. Google lawsuit, and the development community is watching with great concern. While patent infringement lawsuits

The Apache Software Foundation has announced the availability of Apache TomEE v1.0, a cloud-friendly version of the popular open source Tomcat application server. As the name suggests, TomEE combines Java

As business users increasingly turn to smartphones and tablets to do their jobs, enterprise application development teams are facing increasing pressure to turn out mobile versions of the apps those

Data integration solution vendor Informatica has launched a new Cloud Development Edition of its platform. Aimed at software vendors and systems integrators, the new tool offers a Java-based programming interface

As part of its efforts to entice developers to build apps for its new BlackBerry 10 platform, RIM is offering cold, hard cash. “Quality certified apps submitted to App World

The European Court of Justice has handed down a ruling that could have widespread implications for the software industry. In a lawsuit brought by SAS Institute against World Programming Limited