In New Delhi: SpringSource, a division of VMware, has announced the acquisition by VMware of Rabbit Technologies, an open source software company based in the United Kingdom. SpringSource will add the RabbitMQ open messaging system into its suite of technologies that reduce the complexity associated with development, deployment and management of enterprise applications.
"As organisations increasingly build and deploy applications in a cloud environment, the infrastructure to support this new model is evolving. A new type of lightweight, reliable, scalable and portable messaging system is required to support the routing of user requests to the appropriate resources regardless of where they may reside.
The acquisition will enable SpringSource to builtthe open source standards-based messaging system that enables applications or components of applications to more effectively communicate with each other.
"While messaging has always been a key infrastructure element used in the creation of enterprise applications, cloud applications require a fundamentally different messaging infrastructure," Rod Johnson, general manager of the SpringSource division of VMware said.
Providing clear integration with the Spring Framework will also allow a significant community of Spring developers to leverage RabbitMQ as they evolve their applications from traditional datacenters into private and public cloud deployments. RabbitMQ will continue to be open source software. At the same time, SpringSource plans to continue full support for the RabbitMQ developer community.
"RabbitMQ is an extremely successful technology and forms the backbone for many varied cloud messaging systems," Alexis Richardson, chief executive officer and co-founder, Rabbit Technologies said.
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