Outgoing chief executive Paul Maritz symbolically passed the reins of VMware to incoming CEO Pat Gelsinger during the opening general session at the 9th annual VMworld conference in San Francisco on Monday.
Facebook updated its app for iOS devices after customer complaints of slow operating speeds.
Oracle's recent release of the Java Platform Standard Edition 7 Update 6 (Java SE 7 U6) is available on Mac OS X.
Oracle recently announced it will continue to support Java SE 6 until Feb 2013, extending the so-called end-of-life (EOL) date for the five-year-old development platform a second time
CloudBees has added six vendors to its partner ecosystem, adding new services the company says will fill more holes in the road for Java jocks rolling toward the cloud.
The Technology Preview of Red Hat's OpenStack software was released this week.
Rackspace has made available free software for the purpose of building private clouds based on the same platform that runs the company's cloud hosting service.
After more than 140 developers applied to join the beta test of WSO2's new API Manager, the enterprise middleware maker has decided to make it generally available (GA).
Windows Phone developers have a new home for their applications. Say goodbye to the App Hub, and hello to Windows Phone Dev Center.
Java runtime maker Azul Systems recently made its flagship Zing Java Virtual Machine (JVM) available to open source developers for free for use in development, qualification and testing.
Nimbula is now offering what it claims is the first Apache Hadoop-based distribution designed to process Big Data in private clouds.
Platform-as-a-Service provider AppFog recently announced it has joined with cloud hoster Rackspace to make it possible for its users to deploy apps on the OpenStack-based Rackspace cloud.
A study shows that, although the iPad does hold a healthy lead among those who already own a tablet, those who have yet to buy a tablet device are much more open to Android.
Racskpace announced that as of August 1, its Cloud Servers and its Rackspace Cloud Databases now run on the OpenStack platform.
Hewlett-Packard announced on Wednesday that customers can purchase the company's HP Cloud Object Storage and CDN.
On Wednesday Microsoft announced that Visual Studio 2012 and the .NET Framework 4.5 are build complete and will be released to Microsoft-focused developers starting Aug. 15.
Last week the company submitted a 42-page document detailing security policies for Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Microsoft released SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 this week and announced that it's available for download.
Codename One is developing a new SDK designed to allow Java developers to create native applications for multiple mobile/tablet platforms.
Sonatype on Wednesday launched a new on-demand service that analyzes the open-source components in Java applications for security, licensing and quality problems.