Hodor hodor hodor, hodor hodor hodor hodor. Hodor hodor GitHub hodor hodor: HODOR. Yes, the language repository was posted on April Fool’s Day by mobile application development company Hummingbird Technologies. Yes, the language’s structure and “simplified” syntax consist entirely of the word “Hodor” in tandem with various symbols and punctuations. Yet despite all that, within … continue reading
The rise of cloud computing platforms forces developers to contend with managing hundreds of virtualized servers at a time. But one startup wants to make deployment as simple and ubiquitous a process as third-party and open-source tools have rendered writing and building code. Distelli is an agent-based SaaS platform that downloads to any kind of … continue reading
Developers today are looking seriously at the advantages to be had from free entry-level versions of commercial software—so-called “freemium” software. Developers often see freemiums as great test beds for potential commercial products. This is a trend that looks to be taking hold in the enterprise and developer communities. Freemium, a mix of “free” and “premium” … continue reading
With cloud solutions quickly replacing on-premise software, more business applications are being deployed than ever before. IT organizations and software vendors are increasingly asked to make sense of this new world. Can additional mission-critical workloads be moved into the cloud? How can existing SaaS workloads be rolled into enterprise infrastructure? The need to connect these … continue reading
After releasing five popular open-source technologies, HashiCorp is tying them all together with Atlas—a commercial DevOps and application-delivery product for developing, deploying, and maintaining applications on any infrastructure. Described in HashiCorp’s news release as an AWS-style application delivery SaaS for any public or private data center, Atlas unifies the company’s open-source projects (Vagrant, Packer, Serf, … continue reading
As the year comes to a close, it’s the season of analyst firms looking ahead at the year to come in technology. Not to be confused with Gartner’s Top 10 strategic technology trends for 2015, market intelligence firm IDC has released its own future forecast: “IDC Worldwide Predictions 2015: Accelerating Innovation on the 3rd Platform.” … continue reading
HTML browser virtualization, not APIs, may be the best way to mobilize existing enterprise applications like SAP ERP, Oracle E-Business Suite or Microsoft Dynamics. At least, that’s the perspective of Capriza, a company offering a SaaS-based mobility platform that uses a cloud-based secure virtualized browser to screen-scrape data and context from the enterprise application’s Web … continue reading
RESTON, Va. & NEW ORLEANS–Software AG launched webMethods Integration Cloud, integration software for the cloud; and at the same time, the company released webMethods 9.7, an update to its Business Process Management and Integration platform, together giving unprecedented levels of access, precision and control to business operations. Both products will be showcased at the company’s … continue reading
Compuware was purchased by private equity firm Thoma Bravo in September, and already that move to take the company private has yielded the unleashing of Dynatrace. Previously only the name of a tool, the moniker now represents the entire Compuware line of application performance monitoring tools. New name in hand, Dynatrace hosted the Perform Global … continue reading
BEDFORD, Mass., Oct 08, 2014 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Progress today announced a new appserver for developing and deploying next generation applications, the Progress Pacific Application Server (PAS) for OpenEdge product. This next generation technology brings core systems and applications together with a high-productivity runtime environment, enabling enterprise developers to bridge the gap between yesterday’s mission-critical … continue reading
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 8, 2014, Electric Cloud, the leader in enterprise Continuous Delivery, today announced it has publicly launched Ship.io to bring Continuous Delivery to native iOS and Android app development. This SaaS offering is based on technology acquired from CiSimple, an AnglePad-backed company and a pioneer in mobile Continuous Delivery. Now available as … continue reading
I once wrote a parking sticker application for an East Coast university. If you had a faculty, staff, student or visitor sticker for the campus, it was processed using my green-screen application, which went online in 1983. The university used the mainframe program with minimal changes for about a decade, until a new client/server parking … continue reading