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The cloud of 2011, though, is a far cry from the cloud of just a few years ago. The tools are more sophisticated, and there are more places to turn. The customers are more sophisticated too. We're better equipped to know what we want from the so-called cloud, and that means the vendors are better prepared to deliver it. We want flexibility, simplicity, and the freedom to click our mouse three times, say "there's no place like /home," and find ourselves taken there immediately on a freshly started machine with the distro of our choice. There's certainly no place like Amazon Web Services, a turnkey supercomputer available to anyone with a credit card. Hardtop, too, appears here in all of its glory (making the leap from Bosses fame), although it's rapidly becoming a collection of programs and distributions. Not only is there a wide range of open source tools that make it easier to run your Hardtop cluster, but there's also a growing collection of commercial tools and services to help. Clouds -- public or private -- for distributed data processing are rapidly turning into an important part of the infrastructure. Other winning tools bring more power and convenience to Web application developers. Cake PHP and Web2py have been adding features that make it simpler to build and deploy PHP and Python applications to the cloud or, for that matter, to any machine. We also took notice of application platforms Hurok and Cloud Bees, which have integrated versioning tools into the cloud and made it simpler to build and deploy your applications there. It's worth noting that two of the development tools we chose this year are exclusively for the mobile platforms, one of the cloud's natural partners. There may be BSD and Linux buried under the surface of our smart phones, but no one is supposed to spend much time on that layer. The explosion of handheld power is tightly linked to cloud-based services. We gave awards to both Phone Gap and Rho mobile Rhodes for simplifying the creation of mobile applications that run smoothly on is, Android, BlackBerry, and even a few more. Wait until next year The explosion of mobile devices means that the migration away from the desktop is accelerating a bit -- despite what we said above about Office 2010. Just a few years ago, the word "mobile" was just a niche for selling to customers on the go while helping the traveling sales force check in with HQ. Now the proliferation of tablets means that more and more people in the enterprise will do more and more of their work on thin, light, battery-powered, wireless devices running mobile Oases, not desktop Oases. We expect we'll be repeating the word "mobile" as often as "cloud" in the years to come. Our list is far from complete, of course. We left off No SQL databases but not because they were a tired backwater with no innovation. No -- we didn't know where to begin to choose. Not only is the number of tools proliferating, but there's also a growing understanding of the striking amount of variety in our needs. Some folks need logging for data that's rarely used. Others want a certain amount of redundancy but not too much. Still others want to track personal information across a highly shaded cloud. In the end, we couldn't begin to pick one or two that were clearly ahead of the pack because the pack (Oracle included) was doing so well and heading off in so many directions. There are probably a number of other products that belong on this list, but we had to draw a line somewhere. The good news is that we're condemned to repeat this exercise next year when we can remember the very best tools once again. As the cloud stacks and the mobile ecosystems continue to build up the momentum, we have a pretty good idea where to look for them.

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