SpringSource gets acquired by VMWare
Wow.. I did not see this one coming. Spring Framework has been the golden child of the Java community, often favoring their simple Inversion of Control (IoC) in favor of the more complex Java EE frameworks such as EJB.
http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/08/vmware-springsource
VMWare is the top dog in virtualization (Strongback is partner), so it looks like the path to cloud computing is being set firmly for the Java community.
