Some of the biggest events of 2009 served mostly to set the stage for bigger things in 2010. Poised to make a big bang in the new year are the fallout from Oracle’s acquisition of Sun; Microsoft’s new Azure operating system for the cloud, which will go from beta to service mode; Microsoft Office 2010, which will go from beta to full release; and two Windows alternatives, Ubuntu and Google Chrome OS.
– When eWEEK Labs looked back at 2009 to come up with lists of the stand-out products and technology goofs of the year, I was struck by what a relatively quiet year this has been.
In fact, most of the product activity that jumped to mind from this
year served mainly to set the stage for 2010, which…