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SpringSource and VMware: Appliance mania!

Josh Fruhlinger — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:42:46 -0400

Oh, Sun and Oracle isn't the only merger story to be obsessed with. How about the intriguing VMware-SpringSource tie-up, which has the advantage of not being a mired in regulatory hell, forever? The recently concluded VMworld conference brought some interesting insight into the nature of the future company, with this quote from SpringSource's always-quotable Rod Johnson:

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Java gets cloud-y

Josh Fruhlinger — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:53:32 -0400

I'm on the record as Not Getting The Hype when it comes to cloud stuff; only time will tell whether this makes me like the guy who refused to get on the Network Computer bandwagon in 1997, or the guy who refused to get on the Internet bandwagon in 1994. But that hasn't stopped everyone else in the world from going stone code nuts, cloud-wise.

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SpringSource-VMware: Hyperbole and hard talk

Josh Fruhlinger — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:03:28 -0400

The acquisition of SpringSource by VMware has given rise to an effluence of hyperbolic prose on the subject.

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Merger mania! VMware buys SpringSource

Josh Fruhlinger — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 02:24:38 -0400

If you follow this blog, you know my fascination with SpringSource and its empire-building ways. I must admit to having been caught off-guard by Monday's announcement that it became part of somebody else's empire, with VMware buying the company for a reported $420 million.

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Oracle building an elaborate house of cards?

Josh Fruhlinger — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:43:22 -0400

If you thought Oracle's ravenous lust for buying more companies was sated by its purchase of Sun, well, think again, my friends. Today the company bought GoldenGate, which makes real-time data integration software; Oracle says the move will help it build a "comprehensive data integration platform," whatever that means.

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Oracle-SpringSource: The opening salvo?

Josh Fruhlinger — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:12:43 -0400

Ha ha, obviously Tuesday when I implied today was the end of Sun I was getting way ahead of myself.

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A subdued JavaOne coming up?

Josh Fruhlinger — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:02:26 -0400

Your faithful Java To Go blogger won't be able to make it to JavaOne next week, which is too bad, because I'd love to gauge the mood of developers on the floor. Presumably the feeling will mainly be of uncertainty: the Sun-Oracle merger won't have closed yet, so there still won't be any definitive guidance on what Oracle-owned Java will look like.

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The SpringSource empire grows -- but "empire" is a relative term

Josh Fruhlinger — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:31:11 -0400

Well, no sooner did I declare that SpringSource was building an empire than the company added another province with the purchase of Hyperic. Hyperic's technology will allow SpringSource to add application management features to its software stack.

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SpringSource building an empire under the radar

Josh Fruhlinger — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:34:26 -0400

Hey, how about a post that isn't (only) about the Oracle-Sun merger -- radical concept, right? SpringSource yesterday released SpringSource tc, essentially a repackaged version of Tomcat with non-open source enterprise-y stuff, like management and diagnostic tools, built into it. And of course you can pay money to SpringSource for support, too.

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JCP votes for Java EE 6: Apache says no in protest, SpringSource plays a deeper game

Josh Fruhlinger — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:51:10 -0500

Oh, hey, look, Java EE 6 has been approved by the JCP! Now it is all over but the shouting, and by "shouting" I mean "intensive work by IBM and Oracle and others to produce enormously complex and expensive implementations of the standard in their app servers." The approval of the standard did not really seem to be in doubt, but it's interesting to note (as you can on the above-linked page) who the naysayers were.

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SpringSource's tentacles are everywhere

Josh Fruhlinger — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:30:10 -0500

OSGi is a big deal: the Java community is eager to embrace it (for the most part); with upcoming JSRs, it will soon be part of the Java language, and folks are excited about the modularity it will bring.

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Battle of the lightweight app servers

Josh Fruhlinger — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:03:47 -0500

The Great Recession (Or Worse) Of 2009 is upon us, and the watchword throughout business is thrift. And you know what's expensive? Application servers! They cost a lot to buy from the big guns, and they need a lot of care and feeding. A lot of Java shops are trying to figure out how to get away from paying for beasts like Weblogic and the like to move onto something a little cheaper.

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SpringSource: Bringing the revolution to the JCP

Josh Fruhlinger — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:52:19 -0500

There's been plenty of talk of Sun's potential unravelling and what that could mean for Java, and said talk often involves potential merger suitors for the company. Most of these are long-established Silicon Valley players (latest candidate: EMC), and while such a merge might happen, maybe that's the wrong way to think about who's going to be the major player in Java's life coming forward.

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Java: A platform for platforms

Athen — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:43:25 -0500

Not long ago, JW blogger Josh Fruhlinger began asking the question: What happens to Java without Sun? The general sentiment among commenters has been -- perhaps a bit defensively -- "Nothing happens to Java without Sun! Don't you realize it's open source?"

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