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Slideshows about development platforms

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  DBX 2013: Photos from Dropbox's first-ever developer conference

  For a cloud storage provider, Dropbox puts on quite a show. On Tuesday it held its inaugural developer conference in San Francisco, and there was plenty of colorful activity to see.

  DBX 2013: Photos from Dropbox's first-ever developer conference

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News about development platforms

• Oracle completes its stack of Cloud services (+11 photos)

  Oracle has launched 24 new services to help customers onto the Cloud

• Microsoft makes debugging PHP less painful with new Azure tool

  Microsoft has tapped Zend's Z-Ray for advanced PHP analysis

• Amazon Web Services offers free satellite imagery

  Applications on AWS can now draw Landsat imagery directly from the cloud service

• Google Cloud organizes all the log files to ease troubleshooting

  Google Cloud Logging collects dozens of metrics from Google Compute Engine and Google App Engine

• IBM channels stadium rock at its new InterConnect conference

  The kickoff of the IBM InterConnect conference showed how companies such as Citi and Airbus embrace digital transfrormation

• Microsoft helps boost Android, iOS app performance with offline access

  The company is offering a new developer tool to make offline access easier to implement

Features about development platforms

• Why the open source business model is a failure

  Most open source companies can't thrive by selling maintenance and support subscriptions. But the cloud may be the key to revenue.

• Why IBM will win the war with Amazon Web Services

  The company has more than a century of experience fighting off disruptive competitors

• Who are the real winners in the Microsoft-Oracle deal?

  The deal was difficult to understand because the two companies compete in the enterprise database marketplace

• What to do if your cloud provider disappears

  Follow these four steps to minimise the damage if your cloud service goes belly-up or can't deliver