Springsource Acquires Hyperic

[Posted May 5, 2009 by ris]

SpringSource has announced it has acquired substantially all of the assets of Hyperic. "San Francisco-based Hyperic, recently named a "cool vendor" by Gartner and a "company to watch in 2009" by Linux Magazine, provides web application performance management software that is used by numerous Fortune 1000 entities, including many of the world's largest SaaS and consumer web companies. Hyperic's solutions monitor and manage the performance and availability of the entire application stack from hardware and operating systems to virtual machines, web servers, application servers, databases, and more -- giving IT and web operations a unified view and control of the performance and health of their entire web infrastructure." SpringSource's Spring Framework is an Apache-licensed Java application framework. (Found on Linux Journal)

Springsource Acquires Hyperic

Posted May 5, 2009 19:42 UTC (Tue) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link] (5 responses)

Who acquired who, now?

I've never heard of either of these companies.

no kidding.

Posted May 5, 2009 20:25 UTC (Tue) by mattdm (subscriber, #18) [Link]

There was a funny "slashvertisement" story on slashdot the other day which started with a comparison about how, now, finally, there was a credible threat to Microsoft and IBM. Yeah.

Springsource Acquires Hyperic

Posted May 6, 2009 16:38 UTC (Wed) by robertm (subscriber, #20200) [Link] (3 responses)

Who acquired who, now?

Springsource is pretty big in the Java world. They make a product that uses XML and buzzwords to turn compile-time errors into runtime exceptions.

Springsource Acquires Hyperic

Posted May 6, 2009 19:47 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (2 responses)

Why would you want to do that? I thought the static typing world had gone
to great lengths to convert runtime exceptions into nice safe static
compile-time errors... and Java contains a compiler which can throw
exceptions when things go wrong, so the conversion the other way comes
automatically.

Springsource Acquires Hyperic

Posted May 6, 2009 20:20 UTC (Wed) by robertm (subscriber, #20200) [Link] (1 responses)

You wouldn't want to do that. Unfortunately, Java culture frequently seems to really wish that Java were a dynamically typed language — and under a very thin layer of static typing, it is. Spring is basically a workaround for real deficiencies in the Java linking model plus quite a few helper classes for simplifying common actions that require a large amount of Java boilerplate, but the "dependency injection" part of the cure is in many ways worse than the disease.

Springsource Acquires Hyperic

Posted May 6, 2009 21:25 UTC (Wed) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link]

I never cease to be amazed at the lengths to which the Java community will go to overcomplicate things.