Hewlett-Packard Co. said today it has agreed to acquire Palm Inc., credited with creating the smart-phone, for $1.2 billion.
Progress Software has launched a new Type 5 JDBC driver, which the company is billing as an industry first.
Evans Data conducted a global survey of 425 developers earlier this month to find out their overall satisfaction with software frameworks and Web platforms.
Developers with Visual Studio 2010 can package data-tier application components, including tables, views and stored procedures, as a single unit of deployment.
Here's a look at some of the newest Agile-related products hitting the market.
Palm suffered another blow when the head of its software and services division recently tendered his resignation.
When Twitter CEO Evan Williams took that stage at the company's first-ever developer conference in San Francisco last week, he reassured developers that the spotlight-grabbing startup wouldn't be competing with them.
Although it's clear that the iPhone platform is still the place to be for mobile developers, results from a recent Ovum survey indicate that there's a lot of development activity around all the major platforms.
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has released version 0.6 of the Apache Cassandra open-source distributed database.
Goda Software last month released Scrum Spec 10.0, a project management tool specifically tailored for Agile development.
Oracle said Thursday it will increase its investment in the open-source MySQL database it acquired with its purchase of Sun Microsystems.
VMware's SpringSource division announced today that it will be adding a newly acquired lightweight messaging system, RabbitMQ, to its implementation of the Java-based open source Spring Framework.
According to analysts at IDC, Oracle losing the "Father of Java" James Gosling this week is the least of Oracle's Java challenges.
James Gosling, the father of the Java programming language, has left his position at Oracle Corporation, he revealed on Friday in a blog posting. Gosling says he actually quit the company on April 2.
Developers can start building apps with the powerful tooling in Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4 and Silverlight 4.
The release of the iPad has been hyped like no product since, well, the last new Apple gadget, the industry-transforming iPhone.
Nearly half of U.S. IT professionals surveyed believe that the risks of cloud computing outweigh its benefits.
Vendors shift strategies to ease adoption, improve ROI and target software development lifecycle pain points.
Microsoft on Friday announced that it had released the final Parallel Data Warehouse version of SQL Server 2008 R2 to testers.
Speculation is rampant that Apple is developing an iPhone that will work on Verizon's cell network.