"We are excited to introduce Aptana’s millions of developers to the mobile
innovation wave that we have been riding and supporting as a company over the
past two years," said Jeff Haynie (pictured), CEO of Appcelerator, as
Appcelerator this week announced its acquisition of Aptana, the leading
integrated development environment (IDE) for building web applications.
“We have always focused on enabling the best possible native application
experience,” Haynie, continued, adding:
"This announcement furthers that vision by empowering our growing community
of developers to build, test, and deploy native, cloud-connected mobile
applications faster and with higher quality than ever before."
Appcelerator is considered to lead the industry in cross-platform
development, with tens of millions of users using over 10,000 native iOS,
Android and desktop applications. In addition, wi... (more)
Microsoft on Tuesday showcased examples of how government organizations are
using the recently announced Microsoft Dynamics CRM to improve citizen
services, reduce operational costs and boost productivity. Unveiled yesterday
by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online is the cloud
service of the new Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 solution that is helping both
public and private-sector organizations respond to the people they serve
efficiently.
In order to achieve aggressive goals around transparency, cost reductions and
moving IT to cloud computing, many state, l... (more)
Last week I had the awesome experience of participating in a global
telepresence conference on government cloud computing. Joining me as
presenters were Blake Salle, Senior Vice President of VCE, who shared a
roadmap which focused on goals and objectives to better serve goverment
organizations and their constituents, and Joshua McCloud, Public Sector
Solutions Architect for European Markets at Cisco who facilitated the
conversation amongst the global Public Sector participants.
For those not familiar with The Virtual Computing Environment Company (VCE),
it was formed by Cisco an... (more)
Canada is scoring a 'D for Innovation', and falling behind other nations in
their innovation capacities.
They also have perceived issues around the bite of their Open Government
watchdogs, and while these may seem like unrelated issues, I'd suggest they
stem from the same root issue. Ie. An overly involved, authoritarian culture
of government will inhibit both.
Therefore it highlights the paradoxical nature of the challenge, and why
citizens and businesses need to step up their demands in these areas, and
participate directly in the solution. While the government isn't as
acco... (more)
Businesses are moving to the cloud, at least as far as their IT spending is
concerned. A new In-Stat (www.in-stat.com) report forecasts cloud computing
and managed hosting spending by US Businesses will surpass $13 billion in
2014, up from less than 3 billion.
"Although spending across all sectors and size of business is projected to
grow, there are some segments where growth will be staggering," says Greg
Potter, Research Analyst. "The professional services and healthcare verticals
will see the largest growth in spending on cloud computing services, growing
over 124% between 2... (more)
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