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- Will all the good open source companies be acquired?
- Another one bites the dust. Add SpringSource to the expanding list of independent open source companies that have been gobbled up by proprietary software giants. Let's consider the growing list: IBM's purchase of Gluecode, Novell's purchase of SUSE, Citrix's XenSource deal, Nokia's Trolltech buy,...
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- VMware's vision: Clouds everywhere
- While I was making my way out to San Francisco for OpenSource World/Next Generation Datacenter/Cloudworld, VMware issued a press release stating that they were acquiring Spring Source, a supplier of Platform as a Service offerings. This, I believe, opens the door for VMware to offer a nearly complete, end-to-end solution...
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- VMware completes the PaaS to vCloud
- If you’ve been wondering why an infrastructure leader would acquire a developer framework, the answer is a bit more complex that what shows on the surface â€" and a lot more strategic. As stated in the press release and in the blogs by VMware CTO Steve Herrod and SpringSource CEO...
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- VMware's SpringSource purchase sparks head scratching; Still doesn't solve the Microsoft problem
- VMware's purchase of SpringSource for $420 million has sparked a fair amount of head scratching among analysts who argue the virtualization software company paid too much and still failed to solve its Microsoft problem. Global Equities analyst Trip Chowdhry noted that SpringSource had roughly $10 million in...
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- VMware goes shopping: Buys SpringSource for $420 million; Can it keep the open source mojo?
- VMware said Monday that it will pay $420 million for privately held SpringSource in a bid to become a bigger player in cloud computing application management and the open source community. VMware, a virtualization leader that is angling to become a cloud infrastructure OS giant, said that...
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- Springsource, VMware partner to create enterprise Java VMs, appliances
- Springsource and VMware have partnered to ease the process of creating and deploying open source enterprise Java applications in virtualized environments. The partnership calls for cooperation on multiple levels.  First, it is designed to integrate the Eclipse-base SpringSource Tool Suite and VMware Workstation. This will result in a new set of virtual machines...
- Blog posts 2008-12-09
- Springsource releases Tomcat appliance
- Turning an open source product into an enterprise product line takes real commitment, but it's the kind of commitment enterprise customers demand. In the manner of the old joke about breakfast it's bacon, not eggs. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Time to call the Red Hat-JBOSS deal a failure?
- Time to call the Red Hat-JBOSS deal a failure?so we should all abandon OSS?Hi Dana,I have a few issues with your post (I was with JBoss from early 2004 until I left Red Hat in November 2007 by the way). Because SpringSource is holding user events in 5-star resorts,...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-04
- Time to call the Red Hat-JBOSS deal a failure?
- One of the first in-person interviews I did for this blog was with Marc Fleury, then CEO of JBOSS. He was celebrating a business deal, but soon after had much more to celebrate, the acquisition of JBOSS by RedHat for $350 million. Fleury left...
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- Springsource buys Covalent in enterprise Java push
- Springsource buys Covalent in enterprise Java pushThis is first I've heard about JBOSS's..purchase not being good for Red Hat. Rhetoric from the competition or truth?Courting Sun?SpringSource has been consistent in their theory that support dollars follow committers. Covalent brings a number of well-known Apache committers to SpringSource, so this...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-29
- Springsource buys Covalent in enterprise Java push
- SpringSource announced today it has bought Covalent Technologies as part of its push in the enterprise Java space. "We have the ambition to be the dominant company in enterprise Java open source," SpringSourceCEO Rod Johnson told ZDNet. "You put our portfolios together you have the vast majority of what...
- Blog posts 2008-01-29
- Spring goes five star with Integration announcement
- It's an indication of how far open source has come that SpringSource, formerly Interface21, chose to announce its new Spring Integration product at a five-star resort in Hollywood, Florida. The company's Spring Experience drew over 400 enterprise developers, architects and senior managers, CTO Adrian Colyer right told...
- Blog posts 2007-12-15
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- Terracotta buys Quartz
- Open source Java clustering software developer Terracotta announced its intent to buy an open source job scheduler known as Quartz. The integration of Quartz into Terracotta's platform will ease high availability job scheduling and scaling applications to multiple nodes, the company said. Quartz is currently integrated into...
- Blog posts 2009-11-19
- Engine Yard draws funding as it ushers more developers onto the Ruby services train
- The latest reminder of the strength of grassroots markets in the developer sector is Engine Yard’s securing of $19 million in C funding last week. The backing comes from some of the same players that also funded SpringSource. by Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-10-13
- A close-up look at the new Office Web Apps
- Looks like 'View and correct', rather than 'Create and maintain'Basically, it looks like Office Web Apps is for viewing and minor editing, but not risking breaking Office docs.Ok... So it's definitely a version 1.0 product. Meanwhile, Office 2007 is the 6th version since Windows 95. It's also still a BETA...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-20
- News to know: Apple; Salesforce.com; CRM; Microsoft; PayPal
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Apple's future TV: Can Web-based apps replace "channels," kill cable? DOJ gives blessing to Oracle-Sun, awaiting EC...
- Blog posts 2009-08-21
- SpringSource Enterprise Java Cloud Foundry mixes best of open source with PaaS for application lifecycle efficiency
- This is the clear path for open source and Java developers to the cloud. Microsoft will have its hands full just keeping the .NET developers and operators on the farm, so to speak. by Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-08-20
- News to know: Culture of cheap; Microsoft, Nokia; eBay; Apple
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: Culture of cheap: How discount computers cost the consumer Jason Perlow: Der Frankenputer: A Last Hurrah at...
- Blog posts 2009-08-13
- VMware fleshes out its cloud computing support model with SpringSource grab
- This acquisition was a means to an end, pairing two companies that could not be less alike. VMware is a household name, sells software through traditional commercial licenses, and markets to IT operations. by Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- News to know: Clearwire; Google Caffeine; innovation; Office and Nokia; VMWare; Windows 7
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Clearwire bets on fourth quarter WiMax tipping point Garett Rogers: Google to Caffeinate search results ...
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
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