  Major players, business angels and opinion-makers are broadcasting beguiled
lyrics on the most recent IT hype: your software should ascend to the clouds.
There are many clouds and the stake is high. Distractedly, many of us became
assiduous users of the cloud, but perhaps due to the legacy systems and legacy
knowledge, IT professionals, mainly those many that work in business
information systems for the long tail, are not as much plunged into producing
cloud-based systems for their clients.
  This keynote will delve into several aspects of this cloud paradigm, from
more generic concerns regarding security and value for money, to more specific
worries that reach software engineers in general. Do we need a different
software development process? Are development techniques and tools mature
enough? What about the role of open-source in the cloud? How do we assess the
quality in cloud-based development? Please stay tuned for more!
