It may not be as common as it once was for developers to write applications in COBOL, but despite being created in 1959, the language is far from dead. In

Xamarin has released a new .Net Mobility Scanner which it hopes will show enterprises that much of their existing C# code could run on iOS and Android if companies used

“As the cloud grows in importance, Netflix is positioned to lead mainstream enterprises to adopt it in droves,” says ReadWrite‘s Matt Asay. Of course, Netflix isn’t primarily a software development

In the past, enterprises have been slow to move sensitive applications to public cloud computing services, but a report in NetworkWorld says that may be starting to change. The article

On June 12, Oracle announced the availability of Java EE 7, and the same day, CloudBees announced that its platform as a service (PaaS) would be the first to support

Red Hat has announced two new cloud computing products for its enterprise customers. First, the company launched the RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) OpenStack Platform, which will help companies build

Enterprise application development tool vendor Perforce has debuted a new code collaboration platform. Called Swarm, it aims to allow development teams to work more quickly. Swarm features an activity stream,

Much of the coverage of iOS 7 has centered on the operating system’s new look, but the new mobile platform also offers a number of additions, changes and improvements for

On the first day of its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), Apple showed off iOS 7, the latest version of its mobile operating system. The OS has a new look and

The cloud price war continues with Amazon Web Services lowering its prices yet again. This time it is decreasing fees for Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) database instances. On-demand customers

During his keynote address to open this year’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), Apple CEO Tim Cook mentioned a number of key statistics about the company’s development platforms. It has paid

Migrating an enterprise application to the cloud can be tremendously challenging, but Cloud Technology Partners says its new PaaSLane service can reduce the costs involved by 25 percent. PaaSlane evaluates

At a developer conference, Facebook unveiled its homegrown query engine called Presto. According to Facebook’s Martin Traverso, more than 850 Facebook employees use the tool every day to analyze 320

Java may not be as dominant as it once was, but that doesn’t mean you should discount it, says RedMonk analyst Stephen O’Grady. At the Jax Conf Java conference, O’Grady

Bring your own device (BYOD) policies at some companies prevent users from installing some mobile apps and require them to install others. Fiberlink recently published a report on the top

If you need a NoSQL database for your Web or mobile development project, IBM and 10Gen hope to encourage you to use MongoDB. The two firms are working together on

Sometimes, Web developers want to use a newer version of Ruby of Python than what is included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). In order to meet the needs of

In can be difficult to make money on enterprise mobile apps because developers don’t have the same in-app purchase and advertising opportunities that make many consumer apps profitable. But cloud

Many developers see a lot of advantages to agile software development methodologies, but end users might be tougher to convince. Esther Schindler writes in ITworld that their objections usually fall

In order to make it easier to use its App Engine cloud computing service, Google has unveiled a new “Mobile Backend Starter.” It includes everything mobile development firms need to