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The view from the top of IT with TechWorld Editor Rohan Pearce
Although it is just three years old, Node.js is gaining traction as an application development platform, letting developers extend JavaScript beyond the browser and into servers. But questions remain about JavaScript's appropriateness on servers and developers' readiness to use it.
By Paul Krill | 07 February, 2012 22:11
The open source project Node.js was invented by Joyent software engineer Ryan Dahl three years ago next month. It essentially allows JavaScript to be used outside of a browser. Node leverages Google's V8 JavaScript virtual machine to interpret JavaScript, and it uses an event-driven non-blocking I/O model that cloud services vendor Joyent -- a principal Node advocate -- says makes it ideal for data-intensive and real-time applications running across distributed devices. It is also championed by companies such as Microsoft and Mozilla.
By Paul Krill | 26 January, 2012 00:32
Joyent is upgrading its public cloud service with better analytics and the ability to run Linux and Windows, as it hopes to persuade CIOs to move more applications to the company's cloud, it said on Thursday.
By Mikael Ricknäs | 16 September, 2011 01:14
As midyear approaches, Oracle has made only two small acquisitions. This is out of character for a vendor that has made buying other companies a core growth strategy, doing as many as 13 deals each year since 2005, for a total of roughly 70 since then.
By Chris Kanaracus | 24 May, 2011 07:33
Joyent is now hosting applications built on Windows and Linux, opening the door to Web application providers who have some components built on those operating systems.
By Nancy Gohring | 20 October, 2010 03:04
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