Vmware Springsource and Hyperic: Brave new world and a lot of
questions  So Vmware is acquiring SpringSource. Like most
people, my first reaction was say what? I didn’t get it; what’s
VMWare got to do with SpringSource and Java ? I read the blog
posts by Steve Herrod and Rod Johnson. They were explaining
their vision at a high level as expected, and it did not help
much. I was still drawing a blank. I hit twitter, read some
immediate reactions and subsequent blog posts, hoping they do
the hard work and spell it out for me. No such luck. Comments
were so diagonally opposed to one another that I’ve concluded it
wasn’t just me who was confused. @daveofdoom thought Hyperic was
a key tech, Reuven Cohen concluded that, Hyperic was unneeded by
VMWare and would be shut down. Confused yet?  A sneaking
suspicion has come over me: We don’t understand what these guys
are really up to just yet, and they are up to something
groundbreaking, that may shape the future.  No help from usually
insightful sources, (amazing how ea