1. Cloud development platforms bloom
Google App Engine, Microsoft Windows Azure, Amazon, Salesforce.com
and others have entered into the cloud space in force. What must
developers do to program to the cloud?
2. Microsoft gets serious about software modeling
Microsoft releases its "Oslo" modeling strategy, joins the Object
Modeling Group and pledges support for UML. Microsoft long held an
indifferent if not hostile view of the Unified Modeling Language, but
has now done an about face and is supporting modeling big time, and
supporting UML in the Visual Studio 2010 toolset.
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