VMforce Provides Spring Cloud Platform
VMware and Salesforce today announced a partnership to build an enterprise Java cloud called VMforce. The announcement is understandably receiving a lot of attention in the wider industry context, but today I’d like to focus on the central role of SpringSource technology in the new platform and the unique and compelling benefits it brings developers Read more…
SpringSource Hops On Cloud Messaging with RabbitMQ
I am delighted to announce that the SpringSource division of VMware has acquired Rabbit Technologies Ltd., the company behind the popular open source cloud messaging technology RabbitMQ. This acquisition will enhance our middleware portfolio and accelerate our cloud initiatives. Messaging Evolution in the Cloud As organizations increasingly build and deploy applications in a cloud environment, Read more…
SpringSource: Chapter Two
Today I want to share some exciting news. We have signed a definitive agreement with VMware, who will acquire SpringSource. Subject to regulatory approval, we expect the transaction to close in Q3. SpringSource will become a division within VMware. I will continue to lead SpringSource, reporting to VMware CEO Paul Maritz. Today I would like Read more…
SpringSource Tool Suite now free
It was April 27th around 2:39pm, when Rod announced in his SpringOne Europe opening keynote: “STS will be free!" Reto Meier, with our partner namics, took a picture as proof of that very moment and published it on flickr.com. Also the audience at SpringOne seemed to be enthusiastic about the announcement and as a consequence Read more…
Oracle Adds New Exhibit to Java Technology Museum
Last year, Oracle acquired BEA Systems, the hottest company in enterprise Java…until around 2001. Today, they announced the acquisition of Sun Microsystems, the architects of the infrastructure of the dot com era. Remember the "dot in dot com"?? Both companies represent the history of enterprise Java, and are far less important to the future. Larry Read more…
Enterprise Java and the American Motors Gremlin
You may remember the AMC Gremlin–a strong claimant for ugliest car ever. The Gremlin was produced back in the 70s, but there are still a few around, like this one, which I photographed last year in San Francisco. The enterprise Java experience today reminds me of this piece of American motoring heritage. The Gremlin was Read more…
Job Trends: Tomcat, Spring, Weblogic, JBoss, EJB
Forrester recently described a trend that they refer to as "lean software" in their paper entitled Lean Software Is Agile, Fit-To-Purpose, And Efficient. They state that "lean software is emerging as the antidote to bloatware" and that "the trend toward lean software has been building for years, but the worldwide recession is accelerating it". Forrester Read more…
Programming Language Popularity
My 13 year old son has been programming in Lua, TI Basic and Assembler, ActionScript, JavaScript, and he's into C++/Dark GDK these days. While I've mostly focused on Java for the past few years, I've programmed in a wide range of statically typed and dynamically typed languages. Since my son is just starting his programming Read more…
The cat is out of the bag – tc Server announced
We just announced a new product called the SpringSource tc Server this week at the SpringOne Americas conference. Springsource tc Server is an enterprise-class web application server based on Apache Tomcat. Although SpringSource is not the first company to build a product around Apache Tomcat (WebSphere Community Edition and JBoss both embed versions of Tomcat Read more…
More Weapons for the War on Complexity: SpringSource Acquires Groovy/Grails Leader
I am delighted to announce that SpringSource has acquired G2One, the company behind Grails and Groovy. Why? I’m excited about this deal for many reasons. Grails is a great fit with Spring and SpringSource technologies. Grails is built on Spring. It offers another route to adopt Spring, the de facto standard component model for enterprise Read more…
