VMware has announced the acquisition for 420 million dollars, SpringSource, publisher of open source solutions for developing web applications, including Java environment. Founded 5 years ago, SpringSource employs 150 employees. Fort green light shareholder SpringSource, VMware hopes to finalize the transaction before the end of the quarter.
SpringSource will provide expertise in developing and deploying applications within the data center industry, including in the cloud computing environment of internal and external organizations. VMware SpringSource work including the development of a Paas (Platform as a Service) integrated easy to deploy and administer in the data center of the company or from a supplier infrastructure cloud. This platform can rely on vSphere, the operating system for cloud computing environments from VMware.
“Today, modern environments are moving towards a world applications and modeling of data [data-centric] propelled by the platforms of cloud computing and virtualization,” justifies Paul Maritz, CEO of VMware, “The combination of SpringSource VMware and capitalize on this trend and positions us at the intersection of the most important forces in the software market – virtualization frameworks and cloud computing.?
With the acquisition of SpringSource, VMware is therefore positioned in the field of Paas. A contract valued at $ 15 billion in 2016 according to analyst Forrester Research. VMware intends to occupy the land investment by Microsoft with the arrival of Azure, its operating system for cloud computing expected in November. The subsidiary of EMC frota is also the main actors of Paas and SaaS (Software as a Service), as SalesForce.com and Google AppEngine. VMware will also play the card Sun Microsystems (pending acquisition by Oracle) helping developers to port their applications on Java environments cloud.
A strategy that Rod Johnson, SpringSource leader summed up on his blog: “A solution that will deliver a platform as a Service (Paas) built around technologies you already know, which can reduce costs and complexity. A solution built around an open middleware technologies and portable that can run on a traditional Java EE application server in a conventional data center and Amazon EC2 and other cloud extensible environment and the VMware platform. ?In short, it is a product suitable for all situations that should answer most of the choice of architectural firms. It is now been developed.
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