The talk of CloudWorld this week was VMware’s acquisition of SpringSource. The top-of-mind chatter focused on the price: $400 million plus, a very large sum for a company doing perhaps $25 million in revenues. Certainly there was a good bit of envy in this type of conversation. And, of course, the fact that SpringSource is an open source company further makes the number even more eye-watering.
The talk of CloudWorld this week was VMware’s acquisition of SpringSource. The top-of-mind chatter focused on the price: $400 million plus, a very large sum for a company doing perhaps $25 million in revenues. Certainly there was a good bit of envy in this type of conversation. And, of course, the fact that SpringSource is an open source company further makes the number even more eye-watering.
http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=2988A107-1A64-67EA-E477EC5926295D21
My sense is that it’s an execution question, and it’s impossible to predict how the two companies will come together and execute