IBM has announced that it has purchased UrbanCode, which makes tools that facilitate DevOps practices, for an undisclosed sum. UrbanCode’s primary product is application release automation (ARA) software, which simplifies
According to IDC’s Worldwide Semiannual Software Tracker, the market for enterprise software reached $342 billion in 2012, a 3.6 percent improvement over 2012. Several sub-categories within the market, including data
Business Insider has put together a list of the ten most important companies in cloud computing. Not surprisingly, Amazon heads the list, but some of the names are less well
According to Spotify’s Mattias Jansson, “Many parts of DevOps culture have pervaded Spotify from its early beginnings.” For example, “Backend developers deploy their code in production by themselves, with or
Market researchers say there are now more Android smartphones than iOS phones in the U.S. and worldwide, but many enterprises continue to launch iOS-only apps. For example, just this week,
Vendor EclipseSource has unveiled a new cross-platform mobile development toolkit it calls Tabris 1.0. According to the company, it’s “the first Java toolkit for the cross-platform development of native mobile
Is it true that the current generation of open source developers can’t be bothered with licensing details? Aaron Williamson, senior staff counsel at the Software Freedom Law Center conducted a
If Red Hat, Hortonworks and Mirantis have their way, it will soon be a lot easier to deploy Hadoop in OpenStack-based cloud computing environments. The three vendors are working on
It used to be that most enterprise applications had interfaces that were at best boring and at worst confusing. But there’s a new trend in enterprise application development to make