Spring (company)
| Website | http://www.springsource.org |
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SpringSource is a division of VMWare, Inc.(NYSE: VMW)provides a suite of software products that accelerate the entire build, run, manage enterprise Java application lifecycle. SpringSource employs open source leaders who created and drive innovation for Spring, a programming model for enterprise Java applications. SpringSource also employs multiple prominent members of the Apache Tomcat, Apache HTTP Server, Hyperic, Groovy and Grails open source communities.
SpringSource provides support for the open source application frameworks Spring and Grails which run on the Java Virtual Machine. It also employs leaders from those as well as other open source projects and is an active participant in the Java Community Process.
The Spring Framework is a framework in the Java web development industry, while Grails is a web application framework for the Groovy programming language.
In the last couple of years, SpringSource has made a number of acquisitions including: Covalent, G2One, Cloud Foundry, Hyperic, RabbitMQ and Gemstone. Since the acquisition of SpringSource by VMware in August 2009, the company has announced strategic partnership and collaboration efforts with Salesforce.com and Google.
SpringSource was purchased for $420m by VMware in August 2009, and is now a division of VMware.
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