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Project Turmeric: eBay Open Source Launches with SOA Platform
eBaypenSurce.org made an appearance on the open source scene with the announcement of Project Turmeric. Turmeric is a comprehensive set of design and runtime tools for a SOA implementation. Does this signal a growing trend of non-ISVs in democratizing tooling?
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The Latest Technology Trends as Seen by ThoughtWorks
ThoughtWorks has issued the January 2011 edition (PDF) of their Technology Radar, a document meant to indicate current software technology trends in a concise form.
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WCF Web APIs
Most developers first use WCF as a way to expose SOAP-based Web Services. But despite the name, Web Services are not really well suited for building web sites. XML and JSON-based REST services are simply a better fit for most projects. Microsoft has recognized this and is working on a project to bring WCF up to date with modern standards.
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Verizon Expands Cloud Computing Portfolio with Terremark Acquisition
Verizon Communications Inc. acquires Terremark Worldwide Inc., an operator of data centers, for $1.4bn in a move to boost its cloud strategy. Does this move change the market dynamics in the Cloud IaaS space? Opinions range from highly optimistic to pessimistic and everything in between.
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JasperSoft 4 Released with Big Data Support
JasperSoft announces reporting support for Hadoop and leading NoSQL databases.
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Gartner: Magic Quadrant for Cloud IaaS And Web Hosting Providers
Gartner announced their magic quadrant for Cloud IaaS and web hosting providers
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HP Cloud Announcement: HP Hybrid Delivery
Yesterday HP announced HP Hybrid Delivery which is a complete cloud compute infrastructure intended to compete with Amazon AWS and Rackspace's offerings. HP's offering attempts to differentiate itself from current offerings in several different ways.
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QCon London March 9-11 Highlights, Registration Up 100%
QCon London, InfoQ's in-person conference is coming up March 8-11 and registration is double last year's at this time. This 4th annual event is a practitioner-driven conference designed for team leads, architects and project management. A lot of work went into the program this year for this event with usually has over 100 speakers, highlighted in this post.
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Sending Bulk Emails with Amazon SES
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a bulk email-delivering service built on Amazon’s infrastructure, protected against spam and malware.
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Service Oriented 'Internet of Things And Services'
Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) are associated with business applications and integrations. A recent IEEE publication describes the architecture and processes to achieve relatively seamless integration between the burgeoning 'Internet of Things' with the 'Internet of Services'.
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Android Java Copyright Infringements?
A post on Friday claimed that the Android source tree contained more proprietary or decompiled code. What impact will this have to the Oracle vs Google case?
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Is REST important for Cloud?
In a recent article, William Vambenepe asks whether REST is really necessary in Cloud implementations when Amazon's success with a non-REST API appears to contradict perceived wisdom.
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Appcelerator Buys Aptana
Appcelerator, the company behind the Titanium application development platform, has acquired Aptana. Aptana Studio 3, the Eclipse-based IDE with tightly integrated support for JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Ruby, Python and PHP, is due to be released this quarter.
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JDK 7 is Feature Complete
The JDK 7 project says it has shipped the first feature complete build of JDK 7, tracking close to the expected schedule.
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Comparing Apple, Google and Microsoft
A Gartner webinar (PDF) compares three major players in the software industry today - Apple, Google and Microsoft –, trying to see where they stand today, and how IT decisions will be affected by their competition with each other. TheOpenSourcery compared the same companies from a different perspective: agility and openness.