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SpringSource Acquires Hyperic, Possibly Set to Target Microsoft and IBM
Many sources are reporting that SpringSource has acquired Hyperic, creating a company that could go after IBM and Microsoft. SpringSource has long dreamed of being able to offer a complete open source solution that accelerates the entire build, run, manage Java application lifecycle, and Hyperic offers the last piece of the puzzle. "Regardless, the SpringSource/Hyperic combination creates a clear and present danger to IBM and Microsoft, two companies that have largely stood alone in the ability to build, run, and manage applications. It's also a significant boon to companies looking to open source to save money and improve productivity. Is it a sign of good things to come from not only SpringSource, but also open source, generally? Time will tell, but I suspect we're on the cusp of an aggressive and ambitious new phase in open-source competition."
expecting chair storms
Microsoft and IBM have lots of competitors (Oracle comes readily to mind). What makes this different, besides the fact I've never heard of either of these companies? A blogger I've also never heard of who wants hits?
'Every story, if continued long enough, ends in death.' --Ernest Hemingway
1. Who the hell is SpringSource?
2. Who the hell is Hyberic?
Regardless, the SpringSource/Hyperic combination creates a clear and present danger to IBM and Microsoft...
Unless SpringSource or Hyperic has a few billion dollars in the bank that I'm blissfully unaware of, or their own nuclear arsenal, I don't believe this blogger is using the phrase "clear and present danger" in a manner consistent with reality.
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
*The TV glows to life in a moment; it's News at 11*
In other news, journalist makes laughable prediction that two companies you've never heard of can threaten two of the largest companies in existence. Media-watchers cynically called this a blogger stunt to boost website hits, noting that sites such as Slashdot "drive a lot of hits" which, combined with Google Adsense, turns into cash for news site, Cnet.com, which hosted the article. Comments, Linda?
News organizations cynically driving consumers to their web pages with fake news, how low can you go?
(laughing) You tell 'em.
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Didn't you read the summary? These guys have long dreamed of being able to offer a solution. Plus they're totally unknown underdogs. That means they're just one montage away from coming out on top. Yay!
Two companies you've never heard of merge to create a unified company you won't remember in a week and present no danger what-so-ever to Microsoft nor IBM. I mean, seriously. Let's be real here.
Spring is already open source. It's a very widely used Java web application framework - possibly the king of that particular hill. That's why it's used in hundreds of companies, as the article states.
I'm also sure it's pretty fast in terms of performance.
The proprietary piece here is Hyperic, not Spring.
But you and the other post-writers are right, it's still a long way from being noteworthy to IBM or Microsoft. Too many big companies insist on proprietary software from big name vendors, regardless of the technical or financial merits of cheaper competition (open source or otherwise).
Funny, I am a Java developer (and one who works on fairly new web framework code, to boot). I know about Spring, although I don't use it. I had no idea that SpringSource was the company pushing it. I have a hard time imagining that Hyperic's offering was the one thing stopping major enterprises from using them, also...
Wasn't that supposed to be the entire point of the summary?
You're special forces then? That's great! I just love your olympics!
It sounds like Spring Source has really acquired lots of Hyperbole.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
Hyperic is a GPLed monitoring solution sorta akin to Nagios. I use it to give me my monitoring for my Linux & Windows servers, but also it runs queries against our data vendor's database to ensure that the database is responsive.
I inherited it, which was the first time I ran across it, but after using it I'm a big convert. I recommend taking a serious look at it.
As to the takeover, well, I doubt it'll affect me one way or the other.
Really, how hard is it to throw in a "monitoring app" somewhere along with all the hyperbole, so people can actually tell if they give a damn?
Yeah, yeah, this is (- A billion, Redundant), but where's the sorely needed (-1, Terrible summary)?
sic transit gloria mundi
Is that a swine flu reference?
So long, Anonymous Coward. We'd miss you if we knew who you were.
It's a very widely used Java web application framework
Uh, that's not exactly right - Spring is primarily an IoC container and AOP framework, and a whole bunch of (mostly unrelated) frameworks built on top of those. SpringMVC/WebFlow is one of those components, probably one of the less successful ones at that, as it's not obviously better than its competitors (not necessarily worse, just not better - most modern MVC web frameworks are nigh-identical at this point).
sic transit gloria mundi
Looked interesting till I read 'Java'.
So, clearly, having decided that this wasn't a story you were interested in, you ignored it, didn't read any further, and didn't post in the comments thread.
Or at least, that's what most of the rest of us would have done. Why do you feel the need to complain when /. posts a story on a topic you don't care about?
There's more to life and computers than Java.
Let us pray so that this evil will be striken from our eyes:
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of pointers, I will fear no leaks: For GC art with me...
I'm not getting defensive about SpringSource. I just hate when all the comments are by people making definitive statements about things they know jack about. The attitude "I never heard of it so it must be nothing" is just retarded. One comment even called it vaporware! This stuff is already out there. SpringSource just bought a component already used by them so they could control the whole end-to-end solution. Other clueless commenters are interpreting the summary to mean that SpringSource is going to wipe out IBM and Microsoft. This is about the application framework market not MS or IBM as a whole. It doesn't take a whole lot of reading to figure that out.
Time makes more converts than reason
Dear whatever no name company I've never heard of, heed my piece of advice:
Be careful how you meddle in the affairs of extraterrestrial races you don't understand well, for your brain is highly assimilatable.
Sincerely:
Greg of Microsoft Borg, Drone in Unimatrix 22 subjunction 12
...in bed