VMware goes shopping: Buys SpringSource for $420 million; Can it keep the open source mojo?
VMware said Monday that it will pay $420 million for privately held SpringSource in a bid to become a bigger player in cloud computing application management and the open source community.VMware, a virtualization leader that is angling to become a cloud infrastructure OS giant, said that SpringSource will put it at the intersection of virtualization, application frameworks and cloud computing.