Interesting news today; SpringSource is acquired by VMware. Rod Johnson will continue to lead SpringSource however. The idea behind the merge is extending the Spring stack with deep support for virtualization. There is no product overlap between the two companies, and licenses are not going to change according to Rod Johnson. While VMware is not a company that I expected to be interested in a company like SpringSource, it does make a lot of sense. I feel like this will truly result in a better full-stack experience, so I can't wait for hearing more details about new products etc! 

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