April 13th, 2010

VMware's SpringSource acquires UK company Rabbit Technologies

Java application infrastructure and management solutions provider SpringSource, itself picked up by VMware last year, this morning announced the acquisition of Rabbit Technologies, an open source software company based in the UK.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but SpringSource says it will add the RabbitMQ open messaging system into its suite of technologies. → Read More

April 13th, 2010

SpringSource Acquires UK-based Open Source Company Rabbit Technologies

Java application infrastructure and management solutions provider SpringSource, itself picked up by VMware last year, this morning announced the acquisition of Rabbit Technologies, an open source software company based in the UK.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but SpringSource says it will add the RabbitMQ open messaging system into its suite of technologies. → Read More

August 10th, 2009

Benchmark Capital's Big Day

If you’re a partner at Benchmark Capital, you’re having a very good day and celebrating two separate portfolio acquisitions.

That’s sort of like an unassisted triple play in baseball, it just doesn’t happen that often. Maybe that’s why the team looks so darn happy in their website picture. Partner Peter Fenton (labeled Rock Star in photo) led both deals.

The first is Friendfeed, which was → Read More

May 4th, 2009

SpringSource Solidifies Enterprise Offerings With Acquisition Of Hyperic

SpringSource, the maker of the open source application framework for Java, has acquired Hyperic, which provides open source software to manage web applications. Hyperic provides monitoring and management software for all types of web applications, whether hosted in the cloud or on premise. The acquisition lets SpringSource deepen its roots in the enterprise space by offering a comprehensive suite… → Read More