Trend Report

Brief: IBM Acquires StrongLoop

What It Means To IBM, Enterprise Applications, And The Future Of Software Development

Michael Facemire
 and  three contributors
Sep 23, 2015

Summary

On September 10, 2015, IBM announced the acquisition of StrongLoop, a company that builds products and delivers services around Node.js. A JavaScript environment built around the V8 JS engine, Node.js is quickly becoming the core aggregation-tier technology for many enterprises' four-tier architectures. This report evaluates this acquisition, the impact to IBM's MobileFirst Platform, and the message it sends to the market and application development and delivery (AD&D) pros regarding enterprise JavaScript.

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