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I guess Oracle wasn't paying attention :P

lol,I used to read a lot of comment from developers complaining about how rod is a actually a businessman and are misleading the public to use spring...
guess who have the last laugh.

I 100% agree with all those developers that complain Rod is a business man and his bashing of Java EE was not out of the goodness of his heart, but simply to lure more developers to Spring and thus increase its market value.

Spring is a pretty good framework, and I think it can live on its own strengths instead of having to rely on dubious practices. Hopefully with VMWare in charge this will change for the better.

I think Rod's bashing of J2EE was totally justified. EJB sucked before EJB 3.

And so what if Rod is a business man?

Oh, Rod's bashing of EJB2 was okay. But he 'forgot' to look at the current Java EE version 4 years ago and he conveniently keeps forgetting to do it every year. That's my beef with Mr. Rod.

C'mon guys, EJB2 was years ago. The world has moved on since, Java has moved on since. It's of little use to keep emphasizing how bad EJB2 is in a time that EJB2 for most is nothing but a bad and distant memory.

There will be a summer

I'm still looking reasons for VMware to acquire SpringSource? If it was IBM or Oracle, yes then there are; but for VMware? Do you see any?

@lkamal: There could be many reasons but rest assured that providing their joint plan to the public (and thus competitors) is the last thing on VMWare&SpringSource's minds. My bet is that they aim to become leaders in the virtualization of enterprise applications/Java Web apps, mostly running on the JVM. Think of something like Google Gears for Java, but without the API restrictions (e.g. database). Or Amazon EC2, but focused exclusively on deploying Java Web apps and without the administration fuss of a whole operating system.