While I do agree that the number's small (I think that they could've easily gotten more, later), it's almost half a billion... it's certainly nothing to sneeze at..
Sun bought MySQL for 1 billion. Oracle bought Sun for 7.5 billion. RedHat bought JBoss for 340 million. That's not half bad for a company built on a F/OSS java framework that's only been around in earnest since 2002, especially in this economy... Thanks, Joshua Long http://www.joshlong.com/ On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:42 PM, RogerV <[email protected]> wrote: > > Bill Gates has probably lost more money in his couch than what was > paid for SpringSource. > > Surprisingly small valuation for a company that concentrates on the > enterprise market. Is the open source way truly that unrewarding? > > Problem with Spring Framework is you can use a good bit of its > functionality and totally support that usage with own developer staff. > > On Aug 10, 3:38 pm, Josh Long <[email protected]> wrote: > > VMWare buys SpringSource - thoughts? > > > > http://blog.springsource.com/2009/08/10/springsource-chapter-two/ > > > > Thanks, > > Josh Longhttp://www.joshlong.com > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
