At the second day of the Build 2016 development conference, the biggest news was that Microsoft is open-sourcing the Xamarin mobile development platform and integrating the tool into its Visual
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has always been available under an open source license, but downloads usually require a support subscription. However, the company is now offering its flagship Linux
A company called Cockroach Labs has released a public beta version of a NoSQL database called CockroachDB. First announced in 2014, CockroachDB is designed to survive almost anything?much like its
Microsoft covered a lot of topics during the first day of its Build 2016 development conference, but one news item generated more developer interest than all the others: Bash and
This week’s Strata + Hadoop World conference has proved a popular place for vendors to make announcements related to their big data analytics offerings. For example, IBM launched IBM z/OS
Oracle has increased the amount of damages it is seeking in its long-running copyright dispute with Google that centers on the use of Java APIs in Android. Oracle now wants
Oracle has launched a new piece of cloud computing hardware called the Cloud Machine. The server will run Oracle Cloud at Customer, software which includes the same APIs as the
At its GCP NEXT 2016 event, Google revealed some new enterprise features for its Cloud Platform. First, it added some new machine learning capabilities, including integration with the open source
Docker has released private beta versions of two new editions for Mac and Windows. The open source containerization tools integrate with the native hypervisors for both platforms (Apple Hypervisor Framework