Devx Daily News

S. ‘Soma’ Somasegar Steps Down from Microsoft

Big changes are afoot in Microsoft’s Developer Division: S. “Soma” Somasegar is leaving his position as corporate vice president after 27 years with the company. Somasegar, who is 49, said

Dell to Buy EMC for $67 Billion

Dell has announced plans to purchase EMC in a deal worth around $67 billion. If the deal goes through, it will be the biggest merger ever in the technology industry.

AWS Announces a Flood of New Cloud Computing Services

During its Re:Invent conference, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced several new cloud computing services. They included the following: AWS Import/Export Snowball–This unusual data transfer service involves sending the customer a

JIRA Splits Into Three Versions

Atlassian has announced that its popular JIRA issue-tracking system will now come in three versions: JIRA Software is the traditional version for software developers and enterprise application development teams to

Objective-C Popularity Declines

The big news in this month’s update to the Tiobe index of programming language popularity is that Objective-C fell out of the top ten for the first time in five