Comments on: Some Decisions are Easy – Like SpringSource Acquiring Covalent

By: Spring Meets Cloud « CUBRID Official Blog

Spring Meets Cloud « CUBRID Official Blog — Wed, 04 May 2011 10:30:44 +0000

[...] started to use M&A to secure products other than the framework. The first firm it had acquired was Covalent, where the core developers of Tomcat and Apache HTTPD are employed. The decision to [...]

By: William Vambenepe’s blog » Blog Archive » Hyperic joins SpringSource

Tue, 05 May 2009 05:09:44 +0000

[...] Javier Soltero spun it off and became its CEO) is now reunited with its mothership (SpringSource acquired Covalent last [...]

By: SpringSource Team Blog » Who is the Chief of the Apache projects?

SpringSource Team Blog » Who is the Chief of the Apache projects? — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:33:34 +0000

[...] ZDNet’s Dana Blankenhorn’s response to Dave Rosenberg’s blog regarding companies selling support for technologies they don’t own or contribute to inspired me to set some things straight about Apache projects and companies that “support�? them. SpringSource which, through its acquisition of Covalent, is a significant contributor to a number of Apache projects. I agree with Dave that vendors who are attempting to monetize open source projects by merely selling “support�? around those technologies, while not contributing to the software, are little more than parasites. Not only do these companies not contribute to the projects, but their lack of involvement results in inferior support, which harms users and, ultimately, the reputation and acceptance of the projects. [...]

By: SpringSource Team Blog » Open Source, Open Strategy: The SpringSource Manifesto

Wed, 28 May 2008 00:12:20 +0000

[...] The strength of these values has helped our company through a period of rapid growth. It has also been a key factor in the success of our integration with Covalent, a long-established open source company we acquired in January 2008. The two organizations had a similar culture, making it natural for the staff to integrate. And it helps us to continue to attract outstanding technical and business talent. [...]

By: Some Decisions are Easy – Like SpringSource Acquiring Covalent « Java Net

Some Decisions are Easy – Like SpringSource Acquiring Covalent « Java Net — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:04:37 +0000

[...] This entry was written by Rod Johnson. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.Content related to Some Decisions are Easy â�� Like SpringSource Acquiring Covalent.Our rate is: [...]

By: OSGi Buzz « Ian Skerrett

OSGi Buzz « Ian Skerrett — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:18:11 +0000

[...] The SpringSource acquisition of Covalent created a number of blog post about OSGi and Equinox. Rod Johnson talk about the importance of Equinox and OSGi in his announcement of the acquisition. This seemsto have started a conversation about a mainstream OSGi application server and a good old fashion flame war on Serverside. [...]

By: James Governor’s Monkchips » OSGi and The Rise of The Stackless Stack: Just in Time

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:29:21 +0000

[...] SpringSource, the commercial arm of Spring, recently announced it is acquiring Covalent (also a RedMonk client). This transaction will bring together two of the most successful examples of the new commercial software reality: paying vendors for services rather than code. Covalent is a major supporter of Apache, and offers support for the web and application servers. While traditional software companies encouraged customers to deploy applications on expensive JEE application servers, Covalent helps companies such as Bear Sterns, which are building enterprise-class scale out applications comprising hundreds of open source servers, but want enterprise support from a firm where the coders who built the runtimes work. SpringSource may just have lost some of its purity, but the transaction points towards the future economics of the industry. The Register developer zone calls the combo an "open source supergroup". Well Rod Johnson, head of SpringSource, is definitely a rockstar. You're going to hear a lot more from him. Frankly Rod is far more deserving of the tag Top Leader in Open Source business than anyone at RedMonk, but there you go. At this point I consider it a racing certainty that SpringSource is eventually acquired. Possibly sooner rather than later- the combination of Spring and Apache has got to worry traditional app server vendors. The game is changing. [...]

By: Revue de Presse Xebia par J2EE, Agilité et SOA : Le blog de Xebia France

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:09:44 +0000

[...] Les stacks open source Apache et Spring Framework convergent avec le rachat par SpringSource de Covalent, le leader du support et des services sur les projets de la Fondation Apache. Covalent est notamment un acteur clef du projet Tomcat. [...]

By: Edelson Media Consulting » SpringSource Acquires the A in LAMP

Edelson Media Consulting » SpringSource Acquires the A in LAMP — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:36:23 +0000

[...] Read Rob's Blog explaining the acquisition Java, Spring [...]

By: Agim Emruli » Blog Archive » SpringSource übernimmt Open Source Firma

Agim Emruli » Blog Archive » SpringSource übernimmt Open Source Firma — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:18:30 +0000

[...] Ende Januer hat Rod Johnson die Übernahme von Covalent in seinem Blog bekannt gegeben. Covalent ist in der (Mit-)Entwicklung und dem Support von mehreren Apache Projekten aktiv, unter anderem den populären Apache HTTPD Server sowie den Tomcat Servlet Container. Durch die Übernahme erhalten nun Kunden mit dem HTTPD/Tomcat/Spring Stack von SpringSource Support und Beratungsleistungen aus einer Hand. [...]