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The cloud computing space has been abuzz the past week after VMWare's acquisition of Spring Source was announced wondering what the combo of the two would bring to market.  In a blog post following the acquisition SpringSource CTO Adrian Colyer had this to say:

Nothing changes that is, apart from the fact that we’ll have even more opportunity in the future to add exciting new features to them

Well, Spring Source is wasting no time as it announced today that it is acquiring Cloud Foundry, a cloud management tool for Java applications.

Working for the past couple years Cloud Foundry founder Chris Richardson's interest and hobby in managing Java apps on Amazon's AWS setup grew from an open source project into a small paid service for Java developers and now an acquisition and chance to have the breadth of the Spring Source community make use of his tools.

I had the pleasure of seeing Chris present about and demo Cloud Foundry last year at a Bay Area cloud meetup at VMWare of all places.  During his presentation he talked about "why do we need another AWS console tool" as RightScale was sponsoring and talking at the event.  He talked about his focus on the Java space and how it has its unique challenges and opportunities to provide a cohesive user experience for developer and IT folks wanting to jump into AWS with their Java wares.

Congrats to Chris, we look forward to what Cloud Foundry will help bring to the Spring Source stack and what effect it will have on the Cloud Collision taking place in the market.

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