Oracle continued its acquisition spree today with the purchase of service availability software vendor GoAhead. GoAhead offers a commercial distribution of OpenWAF, a Service Availability Forum compliant middleware stack for assuring carrier-grade availability for the communications industry. “NEPs [Network Equipment Providers] are moving to a standardized software and hardware platform that can deliver and manage ...

As promised,Twitter open sourced its big data streaming solution Storm (part of its acquisition of BackType) at the Strange Loop conference in St. Louis this week. BackType has been promising Storm for some time now, but the Twitter acquisition made some worry that it would never see the light of day. Storm, like Apache Hadoop, ...

Podio is a Danish company that provides an enterprise social networking and collaboration tool that also includes a platform for building simple custom apps through a point and click interface. Today the company will announce support for this building environment through its iPhone app. The Podio iPhone app won’t yet support the creation of apps, ...

ScaleMP will today announce a partnership with AMD. Previously ScaleMP has supported only Intel based architectures, but ScaleMP’s virtualization solution will soon run on AMD architecture. The new version of the software will be available through ScaleMP’s channel partners starting in October. ScaleMP offers a solution that allows clusters of commodity servers to be clustered ...

Director of IT took the top spot as the most miserable of jobs, with senior Web developer and technical support analyst also making the top ten, according to a series of articles by Steve Denning based on a survey by CareerBliss. Why are these relatively high paying, in-demand jobs so bad? “It’s the pointlessness and ...

We noted yesterday that Box rejected an acquisition offer significantly higher than its $550 million valuation. The company making the offer hasn’t been named, but just last week Chip Hazard reported that Dropbox rejected a $800 million take-over bid from Apple. What’s going on here? Both Box and Dropbox, along with other services like Sugarsync ...

Facebook is integrating Heroku’s platform-as-a-service into its app building platform the two companies announced today. Facebook app developers will be able to deploy an application from a template to Heroku in only a few clicks. Developers will then be able to customize these apps to meet their needs. Here’s a demo: Facebook/Heroku integration from heroku ...

This morning Google announced via the Google Plus Platform Blog that the Google Plus API is now available to developers. You can find more information on the Google Plus Platform site. The initial API release is focused only on publicly shared data. That means that social media client developers, such as TweetDeck and Seesmic, can’t ...

More details have emerged about Google’s forthcoming programming language Dart. Last week we reported that Dart will be officially announced at the GOTO conference in October. A leaked internal Google e-mail has surfaced which outlines a strategy for a new language called “Dash,” which Google hopes will ultimately replace JavaScript as the browser-based scripting language ...

Evaluating tech workers’ qualifications is a persistent issue when hiring consultants, contractors and employees. Established certification programs, such as those from Microsoft and Oracle, are big, broad certifications covering major general use technologies. But in a world where new technologies proliferate rapidly, including many niche solutions, are these certifications enough? Is there a way to ...