Distributed Cache Provider Updates

I see GemStone has announced that it now has support for native C++ and .NET clients to access their distributed caching product, Gemfire. Will be interesting to see what the uptake of that is on the desktop of traders, relative to their competitors in the marketplace. Unlike the products of their competitors (Tangosol  and  Gigaspaces) which are written in Java, Gemfire's enterprise product actually comes in two flavours, Java and C++. Meanwhile Tangosol, have recently announced support for .NET applications to use their Coherence data cache, they now also support Spring to allow the management of the data cache. Not to be outdone, Gigaspaces also recently announced support for .NET and "introduced the concept" of PONOs (Plain Old .NET Objects) to allow consistency of programming models across Java and .NET worlds.