Pivotal, the cloud computing spinoff created by EMC and VMware, says it plans to launch a new platform as a service offering in the fourth quarter of this year. Called

Microsoft’s Glenn Bock is leading a team that’s working on an interesting project that aims to turn C# into a scripting language. Called ScriptCS, the project allows developers to write

Apple has officially announced that this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) will take place June 10-14 in San Francisco’s Moscone West conference center. Tickets will go on sale at 10AM

CA Technologies has acquired a pair of smaller companies that make application development and deployment tools. The first company, Layer 7, makes API management and security products that complement CA’s

IBM has announced that it has purchased UrbanCode, which makes tools that facilitate DevOps practices, for an undisclosed sum. UrbanCode’s primary product is application release automation (ARA) software, which simplifies

Business Insider has put together a list of the ten most important companies in cloud computing. Not surprisingly, Amazon heads the list, but some of the names are less well

According to IDC’s Worldwide Semiannual Software Tracker, the market for enterprise software reached $342 billion in 2012, a 3.6 percent improvement over 2012. Several sub-categories within the market, including data

According to Spotify’s Mattias Jansson, “Many parts of DevOps culture have pervaded Spotify from its early beginnings.” For example, “Backend developers deploy their code in production by themselves, with or

Market researchers say there are now more Android smartphones than iOS phones in the U.S. and worldwide, but many enterprises continue to launch iOS-only apps. For example, just this week,

Vendor EclipseSource has unveiled a new cross-platform mobile development toolkit it calls Tabris 1.0. According to the company, it’s “the first Java toolkit for the cross-platform development of native mobile

Is it true that the current generation of open source developers can’t be bothered with licensing details? Aaron Williamson, senior staff counsel at the Software Freedom Law Center conducted a

If Red Hat, Hortonworks and Mirantis have their way, it will soon be a lot easier to deploy Hadoop in OpenStack-based cloud computing environments. The three vendors are working on

It used to be that most enterprise applications had interfaces that were at best boring and at worst confusing. But there’s a new trend in enterprise application development to make

On Tuesday, Microsoft made two big announcements related to its Windows Azure cloud computing platform. First, the company is making its infrastructure as a service (IaaS) generally available. The move

Research firm Gartner is predicting that the number of mobile customer relationship management (CRM) apps available to enterprises will increase from 200 in 2012 to more than 1,200 by 2014.

Veracode has published a new “State of Software Security” report, which confirms what many developers and security experts have long suspected: some programming languages are more susceptible to certain security

A conference held this week at the University of California’s Hastings College of Law in San Francisco offered some advice about privacy for the mobile development industry. Tim Wyatt, director

Based on their analysis of U.S. Labor Data, the IEEE-USA says that unemployment for software engineers fell to 2.2 percent in the first quarter of 2013, down from 2.8 percent

According to a new report from Canalys, mobile app downloads increased 11 percent in the first quarter of 2013 to reach 13.4 billion. The mobile development industry brought in $2.2

Two different sets of enterprise application development tool vendors have announced new partnerships related to continuous integration (CI). CI is an agile software development technique that involves merging developer work

In the past, Google Compute Engine (GCE) was only available by invitation, but now any Google Cloud Platform Gold Support customer can use the service. An infrastructure as a service

Should universities be offering Cobol classes? The aging language is virtually never used to write new applications, but enterprises still run billions of lines of Cobol code in their legacy

A new survey conducted by software development services vendor Electric Cloud finds that software engineers spend only 19.1 hours per week on coding tasks on average. They spend another 22.4

Microsoft has officially released the second update for its Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE). According to the company, the update includes improvements in five different areas: Agile planning, quality