It's basically a move into cloud service offerings, so that they can move up the vertical chain - build, run and manage.
I thought it was a little strange at first, but it's quite exciting if they can bring simple hosting and scaling to Java apps, in the same way Spring has made enterprise development easy with Java.
When all is said and done, this might be a pretty interesting story about how to start a company - and make money running it - based on an open source model.
Homepage link - http://blog.springsource.com/
Post link (appears to be down at the moment) - http://blog.springsource.com/2009/08/10/springsource-chapter...
It's basically a move into cloud service offerings, so that they can move up the vertical chain - build, run and manage.
I thought it was a little strange at first, but it's quite exciting if they can bring simple hosting and scaling to Java apps, in the same way Spring has made enterprise development easy with Java.