About a year or more ago - I remember reading about this pretty kick-ass UML editing tool called Saffron.

Now, and it seems to have been like this for at least 4-5 months - I am unable to find anything that talks about it becoming a reality.

Well, that’s a disappointment. It was really starting to look pretty cool.

*Update* - From what I hear, Saffron was acquired by Mcirosoft - and will no longer be an AS3/AIR app. That’s sad.

Here’s a quote that somebody sent me that was possibly a twitter post at some point on Sam’s Twitter page, but I couldn’t find it.

“Jeff D. confirms that Saffron has been bought by Microsoft and will no longer be released as an AS3/air app. Sam is currently working with Microsoft engineers to move the code base over to WPF/Silverlight with a view to a release in Q1 next year as an online app available as part of the Visual Studio package. April 23″

Man what a surprise. Other than the fact that microsoft probably offered some decent dough for it, that really kinda sucks. I think we were all looking forward to it being an AIR app. Now since that isn’t the case - I think it actually might make it that much less interesting.