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Oracle Adds 24 More PaaS Packages

Oracle is banking on its platform as a service (PaaS) offerings as a way to compete with Amazon in the cloud computing space. The company is rolling our 24 new

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Red Hat Takes Over Bug Fixes for OpenJDK 7

Red Hat has announced that it has taken over stewardship for OpenJDK 7, which was released in July 2011 and is part of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Oracle release

What to Read: Paul Ford’s ‘What Is Code?’

Last week, Bloomberg Businessweek published a really long (30,000+ words) article titled “What Is Code?” It’s been receiving high praise from both developers and non-developers, and it offers an incredibly

Jenkins Gets Docker Plug-Ins

CloudBees has announced the release of six plugins that add Docker support to Jenkins, the widely used open source continuous integration platform. “We’re seeing a huge trend toward Docker and

App Engine for PHP Now Generally Available

Google’s App Engine for PHP cloud computing service has exited beta and is now generally available. Google’s cloud development platform now supports four scripting languages: Python, Java, Go and Python.

Facebook Open Sources Infer Testing Tool

Facebook has released a mobile testing tool called Infer under an open source license. Infer can spot errors in Objective-C, Java and C, making it capable of testing both iOS