Apple started off 2018 by acquiring privately held app tools startup Buddybuild on Jan. 4. Buddybuild is a Vancouver, Canada-based mobile app tools startup that was founded in 2015 and had raised approximately $8.8 million to date. Financial terms of…
When looking to build and deploy enterprise applications in 2018, NodeSource and its investors are betting that many will choose to use Node.js. Node.js is a widely deployed open source JavaScript framework that NodeSource supports with its commercial N|Solid platform.…
As 2017 comes to close, it’s that time of year to think ahead about what’s yet to come next year. In the world of enterprise applications, including business intelligence (BI), customer relationship management (CRM), big data and application development that…
Stream processing technology that takes flows of data and enables use by apps was a strong trend in 2017 that will continue into 2018. There are multiple ways that organizations can use stream processing with different services and open-source projects…
In the world of big data, one project has long loomed larger than all the rest — Hadoop. The open source Apache Hadoop project provides the core framework on which dozens of other big data efforts rely. The Apache Hadoop…
Among the newest areas of application development is augmented reality (AR), where normal everyday life gets overlaid with technical information, content or media. Building AR apps hasn’t been easy, which is why Amazon on Nov. 27 announced its new Sumerian…
In the modern enterprise apps world, distributed streaming data is a core component, and perhaps no other technology is as widely used for that purpose as is Apache Kafka. On Nov. 1, the Apache Kafka 1.0.0 release officially debuted, marking…
Hashicorp announced on Oct. 24 that it has raised a news Series C round of funding, bringing in $40 million. The Series C round was led by GGV Capital and Redpoint, and it included the participation of Mayfield and True…
At its OracleWorld event, Oracle announced multiple new enterprise applications and services, including the Oracle 18c database, a blockchain cloud service, security services and artificial intelligence infused apps for the cloud. The Oracle 18c database is the latest iteration of…
Back in September 2016, Oracle first announced the open-source MySQL 8.0.0 milestone release and has been quietly iterating and developing the next generation database ever since. On Sept. 25, at long last Oracle debuted the first official Release Candidate (RC)…
