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
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,
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
An IDG Connect survey commissioned by Unisys recently found that 50 percent of C-level executives preferred private clouds to public or hybrid cloud computing environments. By comparison, 26 percent preferred
In a recent blog post, Facebook’s Durham Goode and Siddharth Agarwal explained how they modified the Mercurial version control system to meet their company’s needs. At issue was the vast
Its Salesforce1 platform is still very young, but Salesforce.com says the mobile platform is already showing great promise. In the first month after Salesforce1 launched, the cloud computing company saw
Microsoft has purchased Parature, an enterprise software vendor, and plans to integrate its customer service knowledgebase into Dynamics CRM. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but TechCrunch pegs the
Microsoft has announced two upcoming developer events. First, it will co-host a social-focused hackathon with Facebook January 17-18. “A number of our engineers along with Facebook’s engineers will be there
Like much of our society, programming is driven by trends. As new technologies create better precision, efficiency and ease of use, older technologies fall by the wayside. InfoWorld has put