19 posts tagged Covalent

I’m still kicking around the ideas suggested by Tim Bowden’s post, which suggested that the GPL is a better licensing choice than BSD for vendors establishing commercial dominance around an open source project. If you were to draw up a list of the most successful commercial open source vendors, I believe they would all be based on either the L/GPL or the MPL.

Perhaps it was the preceding post Sun-MySQL buzz or the tidal wave of speculation surrounding a potential Microsoft-Yahoo merger that served to overshadow last week's SpringSource-Covalent announcement.

Perhaps it was the preceding post Sun-MySQL buzz or the tidal wave of speculation surrounding a potential Microsoft-Yahoo merger that served to overshadow last week's SpringSource-Covalent announcement.

When I first heard about OSGi I had no clue what it was. To be honest I initially confused it with OGSA, the Open Grid Services Architecture, which seems like another over-ambitious (and ultimately unsuccessful) initiative to enable pooled computing resources through traditional vendor standards efforts.

There must be something going around, something in the water. That was how one commenter put it to me this week. How else to explain the rash of open source acquisitions? From MySQL to Covalent to Trolltech, the appetite for open source vendors appears to be insatiable - even when the acquiring firm is itself an open source play, as is the case in the Covalent deal.

What links JBoss, XenSource, Zimbra and MySQL (aside from the fact that they were all acquired for large amounts of money)? Peter Fenton and/or Benchmark Capital. UPDATE This post corrects a couple of mistakes in the original version. UPDATE Fenton made his investments in JBoss, Zimbra and XenSource while at Accel.

SpringSource acquires Covalent. XAware obtains $7.4m in additional funding. Sun announces details of its $1m open source awards. (and more) SpringSource Acquires Covalent Technologies, SpringSource / Covalent Technologies (Press Release) XAware Secures $7.4 Million in Additional Funding to Further

The list of acquisitions continues to grow as Springsource, the company behind the Spring framework, announced the acquisition of Covalent, a company proposing support and other services around Apache technologies. read more

SpringSource, formerly called Interface21, announces acquisition of fellow open source company Covalent Technologies.

SpringSource acquires Covalent Submitted by mraible on Tue, 2008/01/29 - 10:19am. Wow - I never expected SpringSource to acquire Covalent, but it definitely seems like a good match. From Rod Johnson in Some Decisions are Easy – Like SpringSource Acquiring Covalent: