Two new employment reports indicate that the job market for developers could be hotter than ever in 2015. First, a Dice report finds that tech hiring plans are stronger than

Oracle reported strong earnings in most recent quarterly report, due in large part to the strength of its cloud computing operations. The company’s cloud-related revenue climbed 47 percent year-over-year, and

If executives at Oracle are correct, big data will continue to be a huge trend next year. In fact, Neil Mendelson, Oracle vice president of Big Data and Advanced Analytics,

JetBrains has announced the official release of Upsource 1.0. The tool allows developers to view code in Git, Mercurial, Subversion, and Perforce repositories. According to the company, Upsource can help

Coverity has released its annual report on code quality, and this year’s study holds good news for open source big data tools. Among the open source big data tools examined,

In keeping with its plans to open source much of its .NET development platform, Microsoft has announced that it plans to release its Orleans programming model under an open source

Enterprise mobility vendor Kony has released the results of a new survey on user interface design for mobile development projects. According to the report, half of new apps “fail to

Microsoft has announced the purchase of HockeyApp, a Stuttgart, Germany-based company that offers crash analytics and app distribution services. Microsoft plans to integrate HockeyApp’s capabilities into its IDE and other

Salesforce has launched a new product designed to make it easier for companies to set up their own internal app stores. Called AppExchange Store Builder, it’s based on the same

Microsoft has announced some changes to its pricing models for Microsoft Visual Studio Online and Team Foundation Server. Most users should see lower costs as a result. The changes include

Intel has announced a wide-ranging Internet of Things (IoT) platform to compete with offerings from rival ARM. The platform includes a variety of hardware components, software and services, including products

Microsoft has released some additional information about the next version of Visual Basic. (It will be called Visual Basic 14 in order to sync up with the naming conventions for

Microsoft, Accenture and Avanade (a joint venture between Microsoft and Accenture) are partnering to offer The Accenture Hybrid Cloud Solution for Microsoft Azure. The offering will combine consultancy services from

Mendix has announced that its no-code, rapid application development tooling is coming to HP’s Helion cloud computing platform. The partnership will allow developers or non-technical staff to create apps quickly

Microsoft has announced that its Azure RemoteApp Service will reach general availability status on December 11. It has been available as a preview for several months. Azure RemoteApp is a

Restlet has launched a complete API Platform, which includes a Web-based IDE called Restlet Studio, a cloud-based service for publishing and managing APIs called APISpark and its API Framework called

At a conference in Barcelona, HP announced immediate availability of a new cloud-based big data analytics solution called Haven OnDemand. It runs on HP’s Helion cloud computing infrastructure, and it

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made some significant changes to the fees it charges for reserved EC2 instances. First, the cloud computing services has eliminated the light, medium and heavy

Linux distribution provider CoreOS has announced that it is developing its own container technology called Rocket that will compete with Docker. It has released an initial prototype on GitHub and

InfoWorld has put together a list of key enterprise technology trends for 2015 and beyond. Several of the trends they mention will have implications for enterprise application development teams. Here’s

A new report from Machina Research says that while traditional relational databases will play a role in the Internet of Things (IoT), NoSQL databases will be necessary for “managing more