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The death of middleware

I’ve been spending a fair bit of time this week talking to a journalist I’ve known for years, Danny Bradbury, for a series of features he’s writing on the middleware strategies of some of the big enterprise software vendors. After our first chat, something suddenly struck me (probably very belatedly): when middleware is talked about [...]

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Notes on PDC: Windows Azure

There were always going to be high expectations for Microsoft’s 2008 Professional Developer Conference (PDC). This was the first PDC without Bill Gates at the helm, and let’s also not forget that the PDC event scheduled for 2007 was unceremoniously cancelled at the last minute – fuelling speculation that Microsoft’s product roadmap was in the [...]

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