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This year enterprise 2.0 went from being a fringe idea to being mainstream as CIOs started asking "how?" instead of "why?" Big name vendors entered the marketplace with new products and existing vendors released new versions with innovative new features.

We chose to break up the enterprise products of the year up into categories: new product, e-mail, mobile, development tool, database, social software suite, social CRM, microblogging, conferencing and CMS. Products were evaluated based on market performance, innovation, utility, impact on the space as a whole and improvement over last year. Each of these products either changed the game, or won it.

Acknowledging a "major shift" in the way the working world operates, Adobe announced today the release of two cloud-based tools designed to help people collaborate and manage files across multiple devices.

Adobe SendNow is a service that allows coworkers to share large files with each other and keep track of them via a centralized dashboard.

It's been a busy week in enterprise-land, and with the kickoff of Enterprise 2.0 in Santa Clara, it's only going to get busier next week. This week saw some new tools from Adobe, a new entrant into the burgeoning social CRM space, an interesting new client-less anti-malware appliance and much more. Here's a round-up of the new stuff in one convenient location.

Last week Bob Muglia, president of the Server and Tools Division (STB) at Microsoft, told ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley that's Microsoft's Silverlight strategy had "shifted." Muglia described Silverlight as the development platform for Windows Phone 7 but indicated that Microsoft will be increasingly emphasizing HTML5. Microsoft's Joshua Allen claimed last year that Silverlight and HTML5 weren't in competition with each other, so this seems like quite an about-face for the company. What does this mean for Silverlight developers? Will you continue to learn and develop in Silverlight, or will you jump ship?

Update: Muglia issued a clarification on the Silverlight blog one minute after this post went live.

Adobe isn't a company that's typically thought of as an "enterprise software company," even though it sells its software to large enterprises and offers "enterprisey" products like Acrobat and LiveCycle. That could be changing.

Atlassian recently said it wants to be for technical teams what Adobe is to designers, but it's clear that Adobe wants to be to technical teams what it is to designers. Adobe announced several new products at its annual Max conference, including LiveCycle Mobile, the new BlackBerry SDK, HTML5 tools and its app distribution system InMarket. What's emerging is a full "Adobe Stack" for the enterprise.

There has been a lot of talk about the perceived conflicts between Adobe Flash and HTML5 lately, but during it's annual developer conference MAX today, Adobe announced a new product for building interactive HTML5 content and highlighted some of the advantages of developing in HTML5. Adobe Edge, as the new tool is called, will allow developers to easily create interactive HTML5 experiences. Adobe also announced a new open JavaScript framework for animations that it will contribute back to the jQuery project, as well as a new collaboration with Google that will bring better layout and typographical fidelity to WebKit-based browsers.

Adobe AIR, a cross-platform runtime environment developed by Adobe Systems, Inc., is coming to the TV screen, the company announced today at its developer conference Adobe MAX 2010. With the launch of Adobe AIR 2.5, the software, already supported on various smartphone, tablet and desktop platforms, is being extended to televisions with the first AIR-enabled TV shipping in Q1 2011.

Consumers will have downloaded 25 billion mobile applications by 2015, a trend which prompted technology mag Wired to ponder in August if the open Web is dead. But don't be fooled by these reports, says Adobe. In its new mobile consumer study the company found that while apps are popular, people often prefer the mobile Web.

Have you ever wondered about the resources and platforms used by the brain trusts and engineering teams behind products like QuickBooks, TurboTax, Quicken, or the extremely popular consumer web success story Mint.com? The company behind all of these products is Intuit.

Let's take a look at the native and federated platforms available today that allow any developer to reach a potential market of 25 million users within 4 million small businesses.

Last April, Apple changed its developers terms of service to restrict the use of third-party development tools in creating apps for iOS, the operating system behind the iPhone, iPod Touch and the iPad. The restrictions essentially banned the use of Adobe's Packager for iPhone, which allowed the creation of apps using Adobe Flash. Yesterday, Apple relaxed those restrictions and today Adobe is calling Apple's move "Great News for Developers".

Is the move too little, too late, or will Adobe developers come running back to make apps for Apple's mobile devices? Was it the last straw or is the draw of Apple's dominant mobile platform too strong to resist?