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VMware has all but closed the deal to acquire SpringSource in a $420 million cash and stock transaction. The idea is to offer new solutions that help companies build, run and manage applications within internal and external cloud architectures more efficiently. SpringSource is a familiar name in open-source communities. The company made quick headway into Global 2000 companies with its open-source enterprise, Web application development, and management platforms. VMware will support the principles that led to the private company’s rapid growth over the past five years: Interoperability with middleware software and an open-source model. “Today’s modern computing environments are moving to an application- and data-centric world powered by state-of-the-art virtualized and cloud-computing platforms,” said Paul Maritz, president and CEO of VMware. “The combination of SpringSource and VMware capitalizes on this shift and places us right at the intersection of the most important forces in the software market today — virtualization, modern application frameworks, and cloud computing.” Integrated PaaS Solutions VMware and SpringSource plan to develop integrated platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solutions that can be hosted at customer data centers or at cloud-service providers. According to Forrester Research, the PaaS market is set to expand to $15 billion by 2016. VMware said its solutions will allow customers to rapidly build new enterprise and Web applications. They will be able to manage these applications in the same dynamic, scalable and cost-efficient vSphere-based internal or external clouds that can also host their existing applications, providing an evolutionary path to the future. “VMware has led the modernization of data-center infrastructures through innovative virtualization and cloud architectures, providing customers with cost savings, agility and choice,” said Rod Johnson, CEO of SpringSource. “The SpringSource team and community are committed to revolutionizing the way companies build, run and manage applications. By combining forces, I’m confident that we’ll be able to deliver a…
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