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VMware Gets Rod Johnson with Springsource Buy

One of the reasons for VMware buying SpringSource, which became quite evident during VMware’s conference call with investors, could be that VMware probably wants to associate itself directly with the innovative open source leader - Rod Johnson, who is the SpringSource CEO and the founder of Spring Framework project, as well as his development team. Noting that the SpringSource acquisition would help VMware “do a remarkable set of things for applications,” Maritz said during the call: “We are doing this for the potential for innovation here. We're talking about innovation, about doing things that no one else is doing.”

The $420 million acquisition of the cloud computing platform SpringSource by the virtualization vendor VMware essentially reflects VMware’s move towards wanting to be far more than just a virtualization software maker and towards becoming a full enterprise platform company. In June, VMware took a 5 percent stake in Terremark, a hosting company based in Miami. The investment also signaled a possible play to host data center operations for customers, placing VMware in direct competition with Microsoft, Amazon.com, I.B.M. and others.

The SpringSource deal marks the latest success for an infrastructure software maker during the recession. SolarWinds, a networking management software seller, sold shares in an initial public offering of stock in May, and LogMeIn, which makes software that lets consumers and administrators log into their systems from afar, had a successful I.P.O. in July.

EMC, which owns a majority of VMware, bought the storage software maker Data Domain for $2.4 billion in July.

SpringSource is the innovator and driving force behind some of the most popular and fastest growing open source developer communities, application frameworks, runtimes, and management tools. In just five years, SpringSource has established a presence in a majority of the Global 2000 companies, and is rapidly delivering a new generation of commercial products and services. VMware plans to continue to support the principles that have made SpringSource solutions popular: the interoperability of SpringSource software with a wide variety of middleware software, and the open source model that is important to the developer community.

Together, VMware and SpringSource plan to further innovate and develop integrated Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions that can be hosted at customer datacenters or at cloud service providers. These solutions will allow customers to rapidly build new enterprise and web applications and run and manage these applications in the same dynamic, scalable and cost-efficient vSphere-based internal or external clouds that can also host and manage their existing applications, providing an evolutionary path to the future.

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