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Article | 22/10/2010 VMware angles Spring as premier Java development tool

Oracle may own the Java trademark, but VMware is touting its own Spring framework as the best programming model for enterprise Java developers.

Article | 21/10/2010 Apache revs Maven for greater speed and extensibility

The Apache Foundation has completed a major upgrade of its Maven software build system, making it speedier and more extensible.

Article | 21/10/2010 Microsoft signs cloud deals with California, New York City

Continuing the progress that Microsoft is making in the state and local government sector, the company has signed cloud computing deals with the city ...

Article | 21/10/2010 Red Hat CEO: Software vendor model is broken

The current model of selling commercial enterprise software is broken, charged the CEO for Red Hat. It is too expensive, doesn't address user needs an...

Article | 20/10/2010 VMware to offer cloud development environment

VMware plans to offer a hosted development environment that should ease the deployment of applications to cloud environments, the company announced Tu...

Article | 19/10/2010 VMware rides virtualization wave to strong quarter

Continuing to ride a wave of enterprise server virtualization, VMware on Monday reported a 46 percent increase in revenue for the third quarter, or US...

Article | 18/10/2010 New Adobe Reader sandboxed, simplified

Adobe has released the new version of its Reader PDF viewing software, and with it comes a number of changes: a new Roman-based numbering scheme ("Ado...

Article | 15/10/2010 AMD server CTO: Core wars will subside

While today AMD and Intel compete over which company's processors will have the most cores, this battle will not last indefinitely, according to Donal...

Article | 14/10/2010 EMC tackles big data with Greenplum appliance

Taking aim at the growing problem of <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-explosion/the-big-promise-big-data-what-you-need-know-today-585">big dat...

Article | 14/10/2010 Twitter solves its data formatting challenge

Eschewing popular choices such as XML, CSV and JSON, Twitter has opted to format the back-end storage of its user and systems data with a relatively u...

Article | 12/10/2010 Hadoop pitched for business intelligence

While it began life as a tool for indexing Web pages, the open source Hadoop framework is being marketed as a tool that could house and analyze vast a...

Article | 9/10/2010 Credit Suisse saves power with virtualization

Banking giant Credit Suisse has found a way to stem its seemingly ever-growing need for electricity, through the use of virtualization.

Article | 8/10/2010 EBay deploys Joomla for analytics portal

Bypassing a number of commercial portal packages, eBay has started using the Joomla open source content management software as a framework to provide ...

Article | 7/10/2010 Microsoft acquires AVIcode to boost .NET management

Microsoft has acquired AVIcode, a private Baltimore-based company that offers application monitoring for the .NET Framework, the companies announced W...

Article | 6/10/2010 How Hitler's downfall mocks your ideals

A short clip from a 2004 movie about Adolf Hitler has ended up speaking for a generation of discontented Internet surfers, as well as pushed the bound...