Darryl K. Taft

Zend Technologies, a maker of tools and solutions for PHP developers, has introduced phpcloud.com, a new technology platform and partner ecosystem for cloud application development and delivery aimed at PHP developers. Zend previewed the new platform at ZendCon 2011, its conference for PHP developers that ran Oct. 17 through Oct. 20 in Santa Clara, Calif. […]

Microsoft has contributed its .Net Bio project to the Outercurve Foundation, a software IP management and project development governance organization for open-source efforts. The Outercurve Foundation announced its acceptance of the .Net Bio project into the foundation’s Research Accelerators Gallery. Formerly known as the Microsoft Biology Foundation, .Net Bio is a language-neutral, reusable .NET library […]

Microsoft has released a Community Technology Preview of its new compiler-as-a-service offering, code-named Roslyn. Microsoft said the reasoning behind a compiler as a service is to open up the inner workings of a complier so developers can take advantage of them. The Roslyn project enables Microsoft’s C# and Visual Basic compilers to be used as […]

Gild, a social networking and skills sharing site for developers, has announced a study comparing U.S. and Chinese developers that showed that Chinese developers lead Americans in some categories but lag in programming skills. Gild, a Website where developers build, share, compare and improve their skills profiles, announced the study on Oct. 18 with the […]

JDK 7 Oracle released JDK 7, available for Windows, Linux, Solaris and embedded platforms. Mac OS X Developer Preview also was released. OpenJDK Continues to Grow IBM, Apple, SAP, Azul and—most recently—Twitter have joined OpenJDK. Team Integration Oracle has successfully integrated its Java development teams, JRockit and HotSpot. JDK 8 Road Map Oracle officials said […]

Continuing on its strategy to better enable customers to harness unstructured and Big Data, Oracle announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Endeca Technologies, a provider of unstructured data management, Web commerce and business intelligence software. Endeca is a privately held company based in Cambridge, Mass., that provides products that help companies […]

IBM saw its third-quarter revenue rise 8 percent to $26.2 billion, largely based on the company’s performance in growth markets, software and services. Moreover, IBM reported that net income in this interval grew 7 percent to $3.8 billion from $3.6 billion. “In the third quarter, we drove revenue growth, margin expansion and increased earnings as […]

Motorola Solutions has announced a new developer framework for creating HTML5 applications for Windows Embedded Handheld and Windows CE devices. Motorola Solutions’ RhoElements is a Web-based application framework designed to allow businesses to quickly and cost-effectively develop and deploy Web-based applications on existing Motorola Windows Embedded Handheld (formerly known as Windows Mobile) and Windows Embedded […]

IBM has announced new services converging social networking and cloud computing for the federal government. At a recent FedTalks event in Washington, D.C., IBM introduced its new offering known as SmartCloud for Social Collaboration for Government. Initially previewed in July, this new offering is a cloud-based service that combines social collaboration tools and email to […]

IBM announced a host of new cloud offerings as part of its IBM SmartCloud initiative, including a new Java platform as a service. Big Blue announced new cloud services and software to provide choice, security and portability for enterprises as they shift workloads to the cloud and use it as a platform for business. IBM […]

ActiveState, a maker of dynamic language programming tools, announced that it has joined both OpenStack and the Open Virtualization Alliance in support of the company’s Stackato private platform-as-a-service offering. ActiveState officials said joining the two organizations will promote the development of Stackato, its platform for creating a private PaaS, as a hypervisor and infrastructure-agnostic platform. […]

HTML5 vs. Flash: Choosing the Right Tool When to Use HTML 5 Over Flash Business Applications Adobe says HTML5 is generally mature enough and sufficient for typical business applications. Accessibility HTML5 beats out Flash in terms of supporting applications that provide accessibility for users with impediments. Search Engine Optimization HTML5 is better for apps that […]