Comments on: VMware to Buy SpringSource for $420M http://gigaom.com/2009/08/10/vmware-to-buy-springsource-for-420m/ Sat, 25 May 2013 23:54:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: VMware and Salesforce.com Create the VMforce Love Child http://gigaom.com/2009/08/10/vmware-to-buy-springsource-for-420m/#comment-220497 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:01:32 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=63064#comment-220497 [...] also is a highly anticipated move ever since VMware purchased Spring Source last summer and said it would create platform as a service for enterprises. Essentially, what this announcement [...]

]]> By: VMware and Salesforce.com Create the VMforce Love Child http://gigaom.com/2009/08/10/vmware-to-buy-springsource-for-420m/#comment-220498 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:01:32 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=63064#comment-220498 [...] also is a highly anticipated move ever since VMware purchased Spring Source last summer and said it would create platform as a service for enterprises. Essentially, what this announcement [...]

]]> By: Terracotta Buys Quartz to Advance Java Scalability Mission http://gigaom.com/2009/08/10/vmware-to-buy-springsource-for-420m/#comment-220496 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:42:18 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=63064#comment-220496 [...] on this front is the fact that Quartz is embedded into application framework SpringSource, which VMware recently acquired. Terracotta and VMware have partnered on customer implementations in the past, and the synergies [...]

]]> By: As the Economy Turns, Tech M&A Is Back — and That’s Good News for Startups http://gigaom.com/2009/08/10/vmware-to-buy-springsource-for-420m/#comment-220495 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:57:21 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=63064#comment-220495 [...] VMware buys SpringSource for $420 million. [...]

]]> By: Transitioning From The Enterprise To The Cloud » Blog Archive » VMware Ready to Challenge Microsoft With SpringSource, Cloud Foundry http://gigaom.com/2009/08/10/vmware-to-buy-springsource-for-420m/#comment-220494 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:41:10 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=63064#comment-220494 [...] in the market for platforms for building, running and managing corporate and cloud applications. With its SpringSource acquisition, VMware can now compete with specialized platform-as-a-service offerings like Microsoft’s Azure. [...]

]]> By: VMware Ready to Challenge Microsoft With SpringSource, Cloud Foundry http://gigaom.com/2009/08/10/vmware-to-buy-springsource-for-420m/#comment-220493 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:36:09 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=63064#comment-220493 [...] in the market for platforms for building, running and managing corporate and cloud applications. With its SpringSource acquisition, VMware can now compete with specialized platform-as-a-service offerings like Microsoft’s [...]

]]> By: links for 2009-08-11 « Jet Grrl http://gigaom.com/2009/08/10/vmware-to-buy-springsource-for-420m/#comment-220492 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:49:55 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=63064#comment-220492 [...] VMware to Buy SpringSource for $420M (tags: business Tech) [...]

]]> By: Java and Cloud Wars intensifying . « Startups, Enterpreneurs and Cleantech http://gigaom.com/2009/08/10/vmware-to-buy-springsource-for-420m/#comment-220491 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:51:10 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=63064#comment-220491 [...] detailed coverage can be found here [...]

]]> By: Friends On The Move: Hadoop, AOL & PayPal http://gigaom.com/2009/08/10/vmware-to-buy-springsource-for-420m/#comment-220490 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 03:55:32 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=63064#comment-220490 [...] August 10, 2009 | 8:51 PM PT | 0 comments With two major acquisitions announced today – the $420 million acquisition of SpringSource by VMWare and Facebook buying Friendfeed for $50 million, I almost forgot to note that two good friends of [...]

]]> By: Stacey Higginbotham http://gigaom.com/2009/08/10/vmware-to-buy-springsource-for-420m/#comment-220489 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:36:09 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=63064#comment-220489 Nice interview, Sramana. I especially like Johnson’s admitting that SpringSource was an iterative process rather than an idea that suddenly was scribbled on a cocktail napkin and then flourished. It’s nice to see that sometime a good idea will come back and haunt you until you do something with it.

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