Spring (company)

Originally incorporated by Rod Johnson in 2004 as Interface21, the company was renamed SpringSource in 2007 to better reflect its association with the Spring Framework.{{Cite web |last=Taft |first=Darryl K. |date=2007-11-20 |title=Interface21 Is Now SpringSource |url=https://www.eweek.com/development/interface21-is-now-springsource/ |access-date=2023-07-23 |website=eWEEK |language=en-US}} Over time, most Spring developers were employed full-time. Spring is open source. The company was eventually renamed Spring.{{When|date=July 2023|reason=Most sources in 2008-2009 still refer to the company as SpringSource, so it is unclear exactly when it was renamed}}

Spring acquired Covalent Technologies on January 29, 2008, which was then one of the leading contributors to Apache Tomcat.{{cite web |last=Johnson |first=Rod |date=January 29, 2008 |title=Some Decisions are Easy |url=http://blog.springsource.org/2008/01/29/some-decisions-are-easy-%E2%80%93-like-springsource-acquiring-covalent/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130713024933/http://blog.springsource.org/2008/01/29/some-decisions-are-easy-%E2%80%93-like-springsource-acquiring-covalent/ |archive-date=2013-07-13 |access-date=2013-07-12 |publisher=SpringSource Blog}}{{cite web | url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/29/springsource_buys_covalent | title=SpringSource pounces on Covalent | publisher=The Register | date=2008-01-29}}

Several other acquisitions then followed:

• G2One, the company behind Apache Groovy and Grails, acquired in November 2008{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2008-11-12 |title=SpringSource Acquires Groovy and Grails company (G2One) |url=https://indicthreads.com/2138/springsource-acquires-groovy-and-grails-company-g2one/ |access-date=2023-07-23 |website=IndicThreads |language=en-US}}
• Hyperic, which developed a tool for monitoring Java applications and their environment, acquired in May 2009{{cite web |date=2009-05-04 |title=Hyperic acquisition binds Spring Framework to cloud |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/04/springsource_hyperic_acquisition/ |publisher=The Register}}
• Cloud Foundry, a Platform as a Service provider, acquired in August 2009{{Cite web |last=Taft |first=Darryl K. |date=2009-08-19 |title=SpringSource Acquires Cloud Foundry, Launches New Cloud Platform |url=https://www.eweek.com/cloud/springsource-acquires-cloud-foundry-launches-new-cloud-platform/ |access-date=2023-07-23 |website=eWEEK |language=en-US}}

Using these acquisitions, the company's business expanded beyond support for its application frameworks, Spring and Grails. It went on to offer a suite of software products across all three stages of the enterprise Java application life cycle: build (develop), run (deploy), and manage. SpringSource created two commercial server products specifically aimed at Spring developers: TC Server, a commercial version of Tomcat integrated with Hyperic for deployment and management, and DM Server, an OSGi based server which never was commercially viable.{{citation needed|date=August 2014}} After spending millions on development with no result, it was subsequently donated to the Eclipse Foundation as the Virgo project. Both servers came with a number of customer support options.

In August 2009, SpringSource was purchased for $420 million by VMware, where it was maintained for some time as a separate division within VMware. The commercial products were rebadged as the vFabric Application Suite. Acquisitions continued including RabbitMQ (an open-source AMQP message broker), Redis (an open source, noSQL key-value store) and Gemstone (developer of several data-management products). These products (except Redis) also became part of the vFabric product set.

In April 2013, VMware, along with its parent company EMC Corporation, formally created a joint venture (with GE) called Pivotal Software. All of VMware's application-oriented products, including Spring, were transferred to this organization.{{Cite web |url= http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2448415 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130428000533/http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2448415 |url-status= dead |archive-date= April 28, 2013 |title= GE Joins EMC and VMware in a Joint Venture to Challenge Software Megavendors in the Cloud |date= April 24, 2013 |work= Press Release |accessdate= August 31, 2016 }}{{Cite news |title= Pivotal's Audacious Plan |date= April 24, 2013 |author= Quentin Hardy |work= New York Times Bits |url= http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/24/pivotals-audacious-plan/ |accessdate= August 31, 2016 }} VMware reacquired Pivotal in 2019 {{Cite web|url=https://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-newsfeed.VMware-Completes-Acquisition-of-Pivotal.3b73174e-4485-4ff9-8c5d-56c54de6db86.html|title=VMware Completes Acquisition of Pivotal|language=en-US|work=Press Release}} and folded it into the Tanzu application suite.

VMware sold the Gemstone object database products to GemTalk Systems in May 2013.{{Cite web|url=http://www.prweb.com/releases/gemtalksystems/acquires-gemstone-s/prweb10652596.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810224807/http://www.prweb.com/releases/gemtalksystems/acquires-gemstone-s/prweb10652596.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 10, 2014|author=GemTalk Systems|publisher=PRWeb|date=May 2, 2013|title=GemTalk Systems Acquires GemStone/S Products from VMware|accessdate=August 5, 2014}} Pivotal ended their sponsorship of Groovy/Grails in March 2015.{{cite web|url=https://content.pivotal.io/blog/groovy-2-4-and-grails-3-0-to-be-last-major-releases-under-pivotal-sponsorship|title=Groovy 2.4 And Grails 3.0 To Be Last Major Releases Under Pivotal Sponsorship|date=19 Jan 2015}}

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• {{Official website|spring.io}}

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