VMware has bucked recent hiring trends in the tech sector by announcing 900 job losses, despite unveiling a three per cent rise in 2012 income to $746m (£475m), while revenue rose 22 per cent to $4.61bn (£2.94bn). The ...
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IDG News Service - SAP's flagship Business Suite enterprise resource planning (ERP) software can now run on top of the HANA in-memory database, in a move that stands to open new frontiers of competition with the likes of Oracle, IBM and ...
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IDG News Service - Starting with Java 8, to be released in September, the development team behind the widely used programming language plans to release a new version of Java every two years -- and stick to that schedule. The idea is to ...
NetSuite has acquired Point of Sale(POS)software vendor Retail Anywhere in a bid to flesh out its family of SuiteCommerce applications. NetSuite made the announcement Thursday.Terms were not disclosed. Retail Anywhere had already been a ...
Tags: NetSuite, Retail Anywhere, SuiteCommerce applications, PaaS
2012 has been a year of re-invention among the tech industry's biggest players, with Microsoft overhauling many of its key product lines, most notably Windows, while also boldly entering the hardware market with Surface tablets. HP slashed ...
IDG News Service-The PaaS(platform as a service)market will grow to US$1.2 billion this year,up from last year's$900 million take,as vendors and customers seek easier ways to create new applications and customize existing ones,according ...
Tags: platform as a service, analyst firm Gartner, sharp growth
After a year in beta, Microsoft has launched its Team Foundation Service, a hosted version of its application lifecycle management (ALM) software. Its usage, for the time being, has been limited to five or fewer users, however. "ALM has ...
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IDG News Service - Oracle is planning to roll out a new IaaS (infrastructure as a service) offering that will compete directly with Amazon Web Services, along with a service called Oracle Public Cloud that runs inside customers' facilities, ...
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IDG News Service - Oracle CEO Larry Ellison made a vigorous sales pitch on Tuesday for his company's next-generation Fusion Applications and underlying technology platform, saying they constitute a more modern approach to cloud-based ...
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Amazon is providing a way for one of the most popular JavaScript extensions, node.js, to easily access the Amazon Web Service collection of cloud computing capabilities. The AWS Developer Tools Team has released a preview of an SDK ...
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The 2012 Duke's Choice Award Winners have been announced by Oracle in advance of the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco, CA. Jelastic has been selected as the Technology Leader Award Winner. The 2012 Duke's Choice Award Winners have been ...
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Jelastic, Inc. today announced the launch of Jelastic 1.8.5 featuring integration with Parallels Billing Automation Standard (PBAS), application packaging, TCP load balancing, custom SSL certificates and a Smart Live Migration System. ...
PeakColo is now able to use its deep experience in running reliable and secure datacenters to offer developers and IT managers an easier way to host and manage their web applications. PeakColo, Inc, one of the fastest growing service ...
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Amazon has gained a clear lead as the preferred environment for software developers looking to use the cloud for building applications. A global study, conducted by Forrester Research, polling developers with experience of using cloud ...
Tags: Amazon, cloud for building applications, environment for software
Windows Azure customers will be able to use Linux-based operating systems, open source tools and languages for the first time now that Microsoft Azure officially supports those offerings. The move to support Linux and open source ...
Tags: Windows Azure, Microsoft, Linux, operating systems