I guess I don't get the value of the acquisition to VMware. This is kinda like HP buying Microsoft just so it could install Windows on it's computers. Why do you need to buy an enterprise software development company to install their stuff on your VMIs? They could either have licensed Spring or just used it for free.
This makes about as much sense than eBay's acquisition of Skype. Mark On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:17 PM, mkpapp <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think you folks are looking at this from the wrong perspective. > Last year SpringSource bought Covalent Technologies. Covalent supplies > technical support for the Apache Web Server and Apache Tomcat. That > places SpringSource in the enterprise infrastructure support and > maintenance service business. VMWare sees its future not in terms of > running Windows on Mac OS X, but providing images of software stacks > that run on their virtual machine appliances (desktop, server, or in > the cloud). So acquiring SpringSource makes for a strong addition to > their product/expertise in this area. All things considered, a good > move by VMWare. > > > > > > > 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 > > > -- Mark Fortner blog: http://feeds.feedburner.com/jroller/ideafactory --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
