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SpringSource buys Cloud Foundry


By Alex Handy
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August 19, 2009 —  Only one week after it was acquired by VMware, SpringSource is making acquisitions of its own. Today, SpringSource acquired Cloud Foundry, a year-old Oakland-based startup focused on pushing Java into the cloud. Cloud Foundry brings a new Java platform-as-a-service offering, which also enters its first public beta today.

A creation of Chris Richardson, Cloud Foundry's primary product manifested this morning as a new application layer available within Amazon's EC2 service. Dubbed SpringSource Cloud Foundry, the platform-as-a-service presents itself as a set of Amazon Machine Images that, when run within Amazon's cloud, can automate application scaling and failover across multiple cloud-hosted machines.

Richardson, who also created the Cloud Tools open-source project two years ago, said that Cloud Foundry offers more than just machine images. “We provide AMIs, but then there's also a Java-centric user experience," he said. "A Java developer goes to a nice Web-based UI and uploads their WAR files, [then] they click a button that says 'deploy.' Then there's a monitoring and management component that's based on Hyperic and can automatically recover from failures.

"Cloud Foundry can relaunch a database and reconfigure Apache Tomcat to talk to it. Also we have an auto-scaling capability as well, so that if app servers are overloaded it will load more."

Initially opened today in beta form, SpringSource Cloud Foundry will reach general availability early next year, said Rod Johnson, CEO and founder of SpringSource. Eventually, the product will be cloud-independent and will be offered for use with both commercial and internal clouds.

Johnson said that, while Spring is a focus for this new cloud product, any Java application can be ported to the platform. “Developers can sign up, they can deploy applications in a matter of minutes, then they can deploy and manage Spring and Grails applications," he said.

"They can deploy enterprise Java applications using the standard WAR deployment unit. We certainly are very focused on the Spring community and on making it very easy for Spring developers to deploy applications using Spring, but you can run a pretty broad range of enterprise Java applications."

Of his company's plans for future acquisitions, Johnson stated that the Cloud Foundry purchase was already in motion before the VMware acquisition last week. He said this acquisition was entirely planned by SpringSource, though he added that VMware approved of the move.

“SpringSource has a pretty clear mission, which we've been executing on for the last eight months or so,” said Johnson, “[The mission is] being the enterprise one-stop-shop for Java. As we go forward, we will broaden our footprint, and we wouldn't rule out further acquisitions."

As Cloud Foundry was a private company, the purchase price of this acquisition was not disclosed.




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