Enterprise Applications

Why IBM is hiring 1,000 software designers

Think design isn't important for enterprise software? IBM disagrees, and is hiring 1,000 designers to prove it.

Java devs abhor Oracle’s plan to kill private APIs

Oracle's plan to eliminate access to sun.Misc.unsafe would have drastic consequences, opponents fear

Akana, formerly SOA Software, enters competitive API analytics market

It's amazing what a new name can do. Throwing off the slightly sour taste of its previous name, Akana is getting a big dose of API magic and rolling out API analytics for its platform. Is this novel, or simply a case of

EHR vendors slammed for interoperability struggles

Healthcare providers cite vendors for failing to deliver promised data portability in electronic health records.

Final Windows 10 upgrade forecast sees OS on 440M PCs by early ’17

A lot hinges on Microsoft beating that conservative estimate

Apple already owns 75% of the smartwatch market

Windows revenue takes another bad beating

Third consecutive quarter of double-digit declines, but CEO is confident Windows 10 will 'restore growth'

The cloud is too hard, so Intel launched a sweeping project to fix it

4 steps to make DevOps safe, secure, and reliable

DevOps and network security would seem to have conflicting goals: one wants to be fast, and the other wants to be safe. In reality, those goals are in complete alignment.

Yahoo ramps up tech to compete with daily fantasy sports pioneers

Already a power player in online fantasy sports, Yahoo leveraged new technologies, embraced open source and allocated staff to add a daily fantasy component and compete with startups such as DraftKings and FanDuel.