Oracle's new Public Cloud is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) designed to run the company's Fusion Applications, which are now generally available.
Just some of the many announcements includes plans to "bridge the gap" between Java ME and Java SE, an approach to modularizing Java SE 8 that will rely on the Jigsaw platform, and a new project that aims to use HTML5 to bring Java to Apple's iOS platform.
Oracle executives touted the benefits of their existing product lines and promoted some new offerings at its annual OpenWorld user conference, underway this week in San Francisco.
Piston Computing announced this week a hardened operating system based on the open source OpenStack project for private enterprise clouds
The Eclipse Foundation's release last week of Eclipse "Indigo" 3.7.1 was more than the usual maintenance release.
Terracotta today launched a release candidate of version 3.6 of its namesake in-memory software with upgraded versions of both its BigMemory and Ehcache technologies.
Engine Yard, a provider of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for Ruby on Rails, now supports JRuby applications on its cloud platform, the company announced Wednesday.
Version 11 of Quest Software's Toad for Oracle database management solution offers a new code analysis feature for developers.
Microsoft popularized the "dogfooding" phraseology, and the practice of a company using its own products was again in evidence at this year's Microsoft Build conference, with a strong emphasis being placed the agile methodology.
Sonatype this week launched a new suite of products and services designed to help companies better manage their usage of open source Java components.
Microsoft announced Wednesday that it expects manufacturers and carriers to begin offering Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" updates in the next couple of weeks.
Rackspace announced plans this week to deploy the OpenStack open source cloud platform across its entire infrastructure.
Spring Social lets developers connect Java applications to SaaS APIs from Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, GitHub and others, and to interact with those services on behalf of their users.
Another family of Java components will soon be available from the open source Maven Central Repository.
GigaSpaces Technologies has just rolled out the public beta of its Cloudify for Azure enterprise Java application platform for on-boarding JEE, Spring and big-data apps to Microsoft's Windows Azure platform.
Microsoft's Scott Guthrie and Jason Zander dove into the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview (and more) in the Wednesday Build keynote.
Microsoft kicked off the preliminaries of its Build conference on Monday by previewing the "Windows 8" operating system.
Zend Technologies, the creator and commercial maintainer of the PHP dynamic scripting language, today released a new version of its PHP Web application server.
FireMonkey is Embarcadero's new application platform and development framework for building business apps with "ultra-rich" user experiences.
During his Wednesday Keynote at the annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff left no doubt about his company's direction.