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Today’s debriefing (download directly here or subscribe to the feed for auto-download) covers:

• Silverlight 2.0 is out! We’ll cover this is more depth in this week’s RIA Weekly, but I skim the specifics and comment on the Eclipse Silverlight plugin project.
• Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith joined Mozilla to start the developer tools department (or “labs,” or whatever). Congrats to them, this will be fun to watch.
• I cover three briefings I’ve had since the last debriefing: xkoto, Service-now.com (getting in the enterprise; looking good), and a PERFMAN demo.
• People have been asking me how the crappy money-times will effect software, while I don’t really have answers, one place to cut back is on upgrades. You’ve already for the previous version that “works,” so do you need to spend to get new stuff. Potential hits here could come for Windows Vista (already under fire) and Adobe’s CS4 release.
• InnoTech is tomorrow. I should be there, along with other Austin-ites. Check out Mumboe booth! If you can’t spring the $35, whurley has a code for free passes for you. Also, as I noted yesterday, there are two other Austin conferences coming up: Spiceworld and the IBM Telelogic User Group conference.
• Novell announced their plans to buy Managed Objects yesterday. I give a re-cap of my write-up: Novell looks to be building out it’s IT Management portfolio, and I’d expect them to buy more.
• Google’s Android (on T-Mobile) should be in people’s hands Friday.
• A beta of Firefox 3.1 is out. It’s got fancy tab switching and “open web” friendly standards support aplenty. Check out the Hardware 2.0 blog post on the topic for some speed tests and more details.
• Finally, I followed up with Surgient this morning. Check out the short interview I did with their CTO.

Disclosure: Microsoft, Adobe, BMC, IBM, Spiceworks, and Managed Objects are clients. See the RedMonk clients list for other clients mentioned.

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