Maritz, with no installed base, wants the Java-coding hoards from Spring, or the open source communities around the Web application framework Ruby on Rails or the scalable network programming framework Node.js.

FORBES: VMware's Cloud Platform- The New Developer Wars

The meeting also considered the overall framework for the project and the possible structure for delivering these programmes by Spring 2011.

UNESCO: Education

First Read: A bipartisan group of senators formally unveiled an immigration reform framework that they hope the Senate could pass "in overwhelming and bipartisan fashion" by late spring or early summer.

MSN: Timing of Sen. Ensign resignation raises questions