Microsoft has turned in a very strong financial report for its second fiscal quarter of 2014, and a large portion of the credit goes to its Commercial segment, which sells

Salesforce.com is reaching out to .NET developers with a new group of tools related to the Microsoft platform. According to Salesforce’s Wade Wegner, the company has released new toolkits that

InfoQ has put together a good roundup of analyst opinions about the state of the platform as a service (PaaS) market. PaaS offerings appear to fill an important enterprise need,

InfoWorld has put together a very thorough review of what the top cloud computing services have to offer by way of a mobile development stack. The full article is well

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is once again dropping prices on some of its cloud services. This time it’s storage that’s getting cheaper, specifically Simple Storage Service (S3) and Elastic Block

Appirio has announced that it is unifying two development crowdsourcing communities that it owns: CloudSpokes and topcoder. It is retiring the CloudSpokes name and moving everyone over to topcoder, which

Among developers involved with big data projects, a minor controversy has been brewing about which programming language best meets their needs. Many point to R as the ideal language for

Apps aren’t just an integral part of the mobile experience—they’re also transforming enterprise IT. eWeek offers ten tips for enterprises that want to jump on the app bandwagon. View Your

While the overall unemployment rate is fairly high, unemployment for developers continues to be very low, and enterprise application development teams are finding it difficult to hire really good employees.

IBM says it will spend $1.2 billion to build fifteen new data centers that will support its cloud computing businesses. The new facilities will be spread across the U.S., China,

According to the Cisco 2014 Annual Security Report, 91 percent of 2013 cyberattacks exploited a weakness in Java. “I was surprised to see that the Java [Indicator of Compromise] number

In an interesting post at Slate.com, programmer Philip Guo says that being Asian and male has helped him in his career and that he’s seen the opposite to be true

A new report from Evans Data finds rising popularity for Android within the mobile development industry. Google’s mobile OS is now the most commonly targeted platform for tablet apps with

In an interview with InfoQ Régis Medina explained why he thinks it’s a good idea for enterprise development teams to apply both Lean and Agile principles in their daily work.

It’s been possible run Hadoop on Google Cloud Storage for quite some time, but now Google is releasing a new connector that it says will make the task easier. The

According to an Oracle posting to the Java mailing list, the company will ship Java Development Kit (JDK) 8 on March 18 even if it’s still a little buggy. Between

According to Paul Thurrott, the biggest announcement Microsoft will make at the BUILD developer conference in April will be its vision for the next version of Windows. Currently codenamed Threshold,

Market researchers at IDC are forecasting greater enterprise interest in application life-cycle management (ALM) tools during 2014. The firm says high-profile software failures at Nasdaq, Amazon.com, Goldman Sachs, United Airlines

In preliminary guidance for investors, SAP reported that sales of its HANA cloud computing software were up 69 percent in 2013. While that may seem impressive, it failed to meet