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Outside Groups Work on a New Version of Java EE

Frustrated with Oracle’s slow pace of work on Java EE, two outside groups?Java EE Guardians and MicroProfile.io?say they are working on enhancements for the open source platform on their own.

Microsoft Releases .NET Core 1.0

Microsoft has officially released .NET Core 1.0, which the company describes as “a cross-platform, open source, and modular .NET platform for creating modern Web apps, microservices, libraries and console applications.”

Red Hat Adds More Container Products

At its annual Red Hat Summit, Red Hat made a slew of announcements related to containers. They included the following: The Red Hat Container Developer Kit now includes Red Hat

MongoDB Launches Atlas DBaaS

At its MongoDB World conference, MongoDB unveiled a new database-as-a-service product called Atlas. For now, the service is available only on Amazon Web Services, but it plans to expand to

Google Releases Awareness APIs

Google has made good on a promise it made at the I/O development conference, rolling out two new Awareness APIs for Android devices: Snapshot and Fence. The tools make it

Google Mulls Options for Its Spanner Database

Media outlets are reporting that Google is considering commercializing its Spanner distributed database technology. The company uses Spanner internally to run many of its core services, and now engineers from