So the big news in the Groovy/Grails arena is the pending purchase of SpringSource by VMware. I’m not really sure how I feel about this. On the one hand, you have to expect some pretty cool cloud tech to come out of an acquisition like this. I’m sure VMware is looking to have a nice tech stack that can easily be deployed in their virtualization environment. On the other hand, I’m not totally sure what this buys SpringSource other than a cash infusion and I, as a consumer of Spring through Grails, am a bit worried about attention being paid to VMware to the detriment of other cloud providers. Hopefully this will end up being a non-issue and there will be great stuff to come, but my initial feelings are largely negative, or neutral at best.