SpringSource, a division of VMware announced today that they are about to acquire GemStone, a leader in data grid technology. The acquisition will add another important piece of cloud to the middleware. To learn more about the acquisition please check Rod Johnson’s blog article.

Two days ago Salesforce and VMware presented their new joint Platform as as service solution which offers the customer a complete Java development and application hosting environment. Based on the Spring & Tomcat platform virtualized with VMware vSphere the applications can run and interact with the force.com Database. The developer doesn’t need to care about software patches or virtual machines because everything is already done automatically. vmforce does also include reporting features. For more information just visit the website at: www.vmforce.com or watch the video.

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