http://www.openlogic.com/blogs/2009/08/will-springsource-acquisition-make-vmware-an-open-source-company/ Openlogic's Community Blog Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:05:05 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.openlogic.com/blogs/2009/08/will-springsource-acquisition-make-vmware-an-open-source-company/comment-page-1/#comment-173838 VM Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:45:55 +0000 http://www.openlogic.com/blogs/?p=635#comment-173838 This is indeed a surprise move from VMWare but business strategy makes sense - The acquisition of the commercial open-source middleware/framework company makes perfect sense. First make your Virtualization highly resilient, portable then partner with Networking giants for Virtualization Aware Networking, and then jump into software market. SpringSource gives VMWare a development “platform,” the next step, to deliver in VMWare-based cloud services and a unique Ecosystem to define both application construction and deployment architectures. read more - http://www.taranfx.com/blog/?p=1593 This is indeed a surprise move from VMWare but business strategy makes sense -
The acquisition of the commercial open-source middleware/framework company makes perfect sense. First make your Virtualization highly resilient, portable then partner with Networking giants for Virtualization Aware Networking, and then jump into software market.
SpringSource gives VMWare a development “platform,” the next step, to deliver in VMWare-based cloud services and a unique Ecosystem to define both application construction and deployment architectures. read more – http://www.taranfx.com/blog/?p=1593

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