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VMware's SpringSource Acquisition: More Than Meets the Eye?

Analysts and observers are still digesting the recent news of VMware's acquisition of SpringSource for $420 million, and I continue to find interesting perspectives cropping up. As we discussed here, the move has the potential to put the squeeze on Red Hat, especially in the application server and enterprise software development markets. It also gives VMware a lot more credibility with developers, because SpringSource's Spring Framework is a popular enterprise Java programming environment, it maintains the Apache Tomcat Java app server project, and more. It also gives VMware a strong presence in the open source arena, when it has been seriously threatened by open source virtualization offerings.

This week, though, Todd Weiss, writing on Linux.com, discussed how many analysts see the move as allowing VMware to tie virtualization directly to applications without requiring a separate operating system. Could VMware have its eye on the fast-growing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) arena, aiming to deliver virtualized apps that users and IT administrators can hop in and out of without a tie to a parent OS??



Working on a Web-Hosted Project? Here are 10 Dependable Hosts

As more and more open source projects are focused on the cloud and software-as-a service (SaaS) models, there is a premium on reliable online hosting infrastructure, and dependable providers. Where can you find the best providers? Netcraft has posted its Top 10 list of the most reliable hosting company sites for March 2009. Are you familiar with ReliableServers, and Hosting4Less? Not all of the companies on Netcraft's Top 10 list are household names, but they beat out all others in reliability tests, and it's also notable that almost all of these elite hosting companies run open source operating systems.


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In a SaaS World, Does Source Code Take a Back Seat to Services?

There have been strong signs recently that open source has a promising place in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) arena. Alistair Croll, in a post over on GigaOm.com, has a good discussion of how irrelevant source code itself can become in the world of software-driven services.

Even the open-source movement is feeling the change, he notes. Recent modifications to the third revision of the GNU Public License recognize that it?s the service, not the source code, that has value. Check out Alistair's thoughts on the relative value of app tone versus the value of the underlying code for service-oriented applications.