Microsoft has announced a slew of products and services at its Convergence conference in Atlanta, from the IT Professional and Developer Preview of Office 2016 to a Microsoft Azure suite and Windows 10 for the Internet of Things. The Office 2016 Pro and Developer Preview, which has been in private beta for the last several … continue reading
Oracle has introduced Oracle Data as a Service (DaaS) for Customer Intelligence at the South by Southwest conference in Austin. Oracle DaaS for Customer Intelligence is designed to unify social and enterprise service channels and unstructured data sources through the Oracle Data Cloud. It can also perform semantic analysis and natural language processing on the … continue reading
Accusoft today announces the introduction of Accusoft Enablement Services, a family of service packages designed to fast-track enterprises to the benefits of HTML5 document viewing. Accusoft Enablement Services deliver the right combination of architecture knowledge and best practices to quickly optimize Accusoft’s Prizm Content Connect HTML5 viewer for the Enablement Services customer’s unique requirements and … continue reading
ScaleArc today announces support for automatic cache invalidation, the world’s first transparent ACID-compliant caching mechanism for dynamic data. A key feature in ScaleArc’s database load balancing software, automatic cache invalidation increases website and application performance by making it safe to cache data that frequently changes, such as shopping cart and user profile information for eCommerce … continue reading
Enterprise software development generates a lot of bundles of files, from deployable artifacts to binary blobs. Keeping all of those artifacts straight has long been the task at which JFrog’s Artifactory excels. Now, containers are making it into the mix in a big way. Artifactory has supported Docker containers since September. This binary repository-management solution … continue reading
Ever since Apple launched its digital personal assistant Siri on iOS devices, companies have been trying to develop their own speech-recognition and natural-language-processing technologies. BlackBerry has the BlackBerry Assistant, Google has Google Now, and Microsoft has Cortana, for instance. The evolution of these virtual personal assistants started out as a way for these companies to … continue reading
DataStax plans to take its key-value store and add graph capabilities with the release later this year of DataStax Enterprise Graph. On Feb. 3, DataStax snatched up the maker of the TitanDB graph database, Aurelius. The move might have been somewhat suspicious at the time, as DataStax had been focusing all of its corporate energy … continue reading
Google is providing its Android developers a new reference app in order to show how they can implement their applications across multiple Android form factors. “It is now possible to bring the benefits of your app to your users wherever they happen to be, no matter what device they have near them,” wrote Renato Mangini, … continue reading
Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the launch of the first certified, end-to-end ecosystem program for Linux containers based on Docker, a key component of the company’s vision for containerized applications unveiled in March 2014. Leveraging Red Hat’s vast network of thousands of partners and independent software vendors … continue reading
This week’s highlighted GitHub project further breaks down the barriers between Windows and Linux. Foreign LINUX is a dynamic binary translator and a Linux system call interface emulator for Windows, capable of running unmodified Linux binaries on Windows without any drivers or modifications to the system. Developed by Xiangyan Sun, Foreign LINUX is currently in … continue reading
After nine years, Google’s open-source code repository, Google Code, started closing shop today by disabling new projects and announcing the permanent shut down of the service by January 26, 2016. Google Code started as Google’s answer to SourceForge, the predominant code repository back in 2006. The reliability of SourceForge was brought into question that year … continue reading
When Mischa Spiegelmock takes interest in something about the history of software, it’s best to just get out of his way. This was the case, yesterday, when he published a little blog he’d written about POSIX. The results of his experiment basically proves that the old ways of building democratized, community-driven software are completely ridiculous … continue reading
