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| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computer software |
| Founder | Rod Johnson |
| Headquarters | Palo Alto, California, USA |
| Parent | VMware |
| Website | spring |
Spring (previously known as SpringSource) was a software company founded by Rod Johnson, who also created the Spring Framework, an open-source application framework for enterprise Java applications. VMware purchased Spring for $420 million in August 2009. [1]
Originally incorporated by Rod Johnson in 2004 as Interface21, the company was renamed SpringSource in 2007 to better reflect its association with the Spring Framework. [2] Over time, most Spring developers were employed full-time. Spring is open source. The company was eventually renamed Spring.[ when? ]
Spring acquired Covalent Technologies on January 29, 2008, which was then one of the leading contributors to Apache Tomcat. [3] [4]
Several other acquisitions then followed:
Using these acquisitions, the company's business expanded beyond support for its application frameworks, Spring and Grails. It went on to offer a suite of software products across all three stages of the enterprise Java application life cycle: build (develop), run (deploy), and manage. SpringSource created two commercial server products specifically aimed at Spring developers: TC Server, a commercial version of Tomcat integrated with Hyperic for deployment and management, and DM Server, an OSGi based server which never was commercially viable.[ citation needed ] After spending millions on development with no result, it was subsequently donated to the Eclipse Foundation as the Virgo project. Both servers came with a number of customer support options.
In August 2009, SpringSource was purchased for $420 million by VMware, [1] where it was maintained for some time as a separate division within VMware. The commercial products were rebadged as the vFabric Application Suite. Acquisitions continued including RabbitMQ (an open-source AMQP message broker), Redis (an open source, noSQL key-value store) and Gemstone (developer of several data-management products). These products (except Redis) also became part of the vFabric product set.
In April 2013, VMware, along with its parent company EMC Corporation, formally created a joint venture (with GE) called Pivotal Software. All of VMware's application-oriented products, including Spring, were transferred to this organization. [8] [9] VMWare reacquired Pivotal in 2019 [10] and folded it into the Tanzu application suite. [10]
VMware sold the Gemstone object database products to GemTalk Systems in May 2013. [11] Pivotal ended their sponsorship of Groovy/Grails in March 2015. [12]
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