Last month, Salesforce.com awarded $1 million to mobile development firm Upshot for winning the hackathon at the Dreamforce event. But some participants complained that the winner hadn’t followed the rules,
Google has announced general availability for Compute Engine, its IaaS that competes with Amazon Web Services’ EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) and S3 (Simple Storage Service). In addition, the company lowered
By some estimates, there are only eight qualified developers available for every ten job openings. With odds like those, companies are going to new lengths to attract and keep talent.
During Amazon Web Services’ recent re:Invent cloud computing conference, vendor Riverbed Technology conducted a survey of attendees. Among the 122 people polled, 96 percent said their organizations were either already
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According to Synergy Research Group, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is not only the leader in the IaaS and PaaS markets, it has more revenue than all its major rivals combined.
During last week’s Dreamforce conference, Salesforce.com gave away $1 million to Upshot, the development firm that won the event hackathon. The firm received the prize for a mobile app which
Every workplace has its challenges, but which are the biggest drag on programming productivity? To find out, InfoWorld conducted an informal survey of developers. These were the top 15 roadblocks
Microsoft has released an alpha version of Node.js Tools for Visual Studio. The tool will allow developers to edit and debug Node.js and to deploy Node.js applications to the Azure