VMware’s Cloud Foundry must deliver on openness pledges
April 15, 2011 No CommentsVMware’s announced Cloud Foundry — an open source platform-as-a-service (PaaS) — strengthens the company’s standing in the developer and open source communities.
The Palo Alto, Calif virtualization giant stepped into the development and open source arena with the acquisition of SpringSource in September of 2009.
This deal brought VMware a top Java development framework and stewardship of Apache Tomcat, Apache HTTP Server, Hyperic, Groovy and Grails open source communities.