SpringSource aquired by VMWare
I see this as a significant, if risky, move by VMWare. This I believe is a move aimed at its pretentions in the Cloud, and if you want to play in that field beyond the nuts and bolts of the Hypervisor then applications and their portability are significant elements. To that end this is as much a response to Oracle’s acquisition of Sun as it is to Microsoft, but it does move them from being just a pure virtualisation player. I do not believe that SpringSource will be re-branded, or that we will see significant changes immediately, but I anticipate that next year the developer platform will be pushed as the platform for the cloud, success will depend on how MS, IBM, and Oracle respond and how many developers switch to using it, or leave it and focus on .NET, BEA, or Websphere (with BMC acquiring MQ series) that can not be ruled out just yet.
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