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We will show the following a) Silverlight Tooling on Eclipse b) Java Interoperability with Silverlight c) Writing Cloud PHP Applications from Eclipse targetting Windows Azure. d) Java SDK for Windows Azure from Eclipse.

Vijay Rajagopalan is a Principal Architect in the Microsoft Interoperability team with the Platform & Interoperability Strategy division at Microsoft. His team is chartered to create & drive Interoperability Initiative across the company. His team collaborates with the Standards & Competitive Strategy teams at Microsoft on a number of projects – some recent interoperability efforts that were driven by his team include the Silverlight Tools for Eclipse, Software as a Service using Cross Platform SDK for Azure Services Platform, OpenXML, Federated Identity & CardSpace. Vijay has about 15 years of experience in the enterprise space, has worked with customers and partners such as Oracle, SAP, Siebel, Intel, Fujitsu, Microfocus, Accenture among others; he has been at Microsoft for over 11 years working in the capacities of Architect & Development Manager. Most recently Vijay drove modeling, business frameworks & extensibility for Visual Studio in Developer Division. His areas of interest are broadly in Software + Service, Formats & Protocol Interoperability, Federated Identity, data management, Domain Specific Languages, management of metadata and operational management but most of all in driving business value from technology investments.

Yves YANG, Eclipse committer, has over 17 years of experience working with OO software development and mainly worked on Eclipse and ODBMS: GemStone, Matisse and Versant. He was the chief architect of first Eclipse UML plugin from 2002 to early 2006. He is also the project leader of the eclipse project: ESL, VE and PMF His activities focus on the EMF/MDA modeling, GUI/XAML/VE development and China OutSourcing.