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Why Your Company Needs To Write More Open Source Software

Real innovation doesn’t happen behind closed doors.

StackOverflow Readers Are Not Your Average Web Developers

A peek inside its devoted subcommunities

Google’s Go Programming Language: Taking Cloud Development By Storm

Adoption of Google’s programming language is rapidly gaining on Java and others.

Is The Private Cloud Really Bigger Than The Public Cloud?

The private cloud appears to be booming, according to new Forrester data, but this may simply reflect an increase in cloud confusion.

Gartner: AWS Now Five Times The Size Of Other Cloud Vendors Combined

Amazon spends less than its rivals on cloud infrastructure yet seriously dominates them in adoption. Why?

Legacy IT Vendors Shoot The Sales Messenger

The legacy IT vendors are lining up to blame their respective sales forces for their earnings misses, but their problems actually are much more deep-rooted than a couple of botched sales calls. The industry is shifting to open source and cloud computing, and it’s having a big effect on top-line revenue growth.

Oracle’s Big Miss: The End Of An Enterprise Era?

Oracle missing one quarter isn’t a big deal, but Oracle’s big miss signals significant changes in how enterprise technology is bought and sold. It’s an open question whether vendors like Oracle will be able to embrace things like cloud and open source in time to maintain their existing businesses while creating new ones for the future.

Stalking Shadow IT: Amazon Assembles An Enterprise Cloud Army

Amazon is doubling its AWS salesforce to pitch CXOs on what enterprise developers already know: The cloud is where innovation happens.