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A New Crop of Computer Programming Schools

With demand for skilled programmers on the rise, many organizations are offering new training programs that teach application development skills. Recently, several of those organizations have attracted funding from investors.

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HP Decides to Open Source WebOS

Following weeks of speculation about whether HP would sell the WebOS platform it acquired with the purchase of Palm, company CEO Meg Whitman has announced that WebOS will become open

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The Rise of the “App Internet”

At a recent conference in Paris, Forrester Research’s Chairman and CEO George Colony challenged attendees to change the way they think about the Internet. He posited his theory that the

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The PaaS Space Gets Crowded

At the CloudBeat conference in Redwood City, California, Platform as a Service (Paas) vendors expressed their opinions about the growing number of large IT vendors — including Oracle, Dell and

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How to Succeed in Agile Development

What makes some IT projects succeed while others fail? Alistair Cockburn says it all boils down to three behaviors: “Those that were co-locating face to face, (with) short delivery cycles,

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Forrester: SaaS Providers Should Go Vertical

A new Forrester Research report finds that while most software as a service (SaaS) companies already have high valuations, those with specialized offerings for various vertical markets soar even higher.

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SOA and Agile — A Natural Fit?

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Agile software development both help companies become more flexible and better align business and IT. As a result, many have noted that SOA and Agile

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HPCC Adds Amazon Cloud Support

HPCC, the LexisNexis alternative to Hadoop for big data processing, has tuned its Thor Data Refinery Cluster to run on Amazon Web Services. That means that developers who would like