Since Grails 3.0, Grails is a wrapper around Gradle also. The Grails 1.0 backing company G2One,Inc got bought by SpringSource a year after it was formed, which

Since Grails 3.0, Grails is a wrapper around Gradle also. The Grails 1.0 backing company G2One,Inc got bought by SpringSource a year after it was formed, which was the true purpose of Grails bundling Spring, i.e. to muscle in on SpringSource's consulting business until it hurt. So I guess the true purpose of Grails 3.0 bundling Gradle is for OSI's Grails consulting arm to get bought by Gradleware to similarly protect its Gradle consulting cashflow. Earlier this year, Grails' previous backer Pivotal,Inc dropped sponsorship of Grails effective a few days before Grails 3.0 was released, which was very conveniently picked up by OSI,Inc, minus 4 mainly Groovy developers who were retrenched. It all looked like a cost cutting exercise by the Grails P.M. in disguise. The lack of scruples in the people behind Grails is reason enough to ignore it.