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  :: EDITOR'S NOTE ::                                  May 19, 2008
The lives of software developers — and their bosses — may change dramatically with the advent of mashups, which will allow business users to create many of their own applications.
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While much of the talk about shifting paradigms in IT involves infrastructure, with folks focusing on software-as-a-service and its newer variants such as cloud computing, a. fundamental shift is occurring at the application level as well. And it's one that could mean "ordinary" business users will develop most of their own applications, while software developers will focus on mission-critical systems and on building foundational Web development platforms.
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