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Pivotal was spun out of EMC and VMware. From EMC came Pivotal Labs, Greenplum and I think GemFire. From VMware came Spring and Cloud Foundry. Not sure which on
by jacques_chester 7y ago
Pivotal was spun out of EMC and VMware.
From EMC came Pivotal Labs, Greenplum and I think GemFire. From VMware came Spring and Cloud Foundry. Not sure which one RabbitMQ came from.
Disclosure: I work for Pivotal.
- brikelly 7y agoRabbitMQ was its own startup for a number of years (I think called "Rabbit Technologies") before it got the attention of the SpringSource/VMWare crew.
- epsilon_greedy 7y agoGemFire came from VMware. Spring purchased[1] GemStone (which owned gemfire) while they were a division of VMware. RabbitMQ also came from VMware by way of Spring[2]. [1] https://spring.io/blog/2010/05/06/springsource-to-acquire-gemstone-data-management https://spring.io/blog/2010/05/06/springsource-to-acquire-ge... [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20100418132113/http://www.rabbitmq.com/news.html https://web.archive.org/web/20100418132113/http://www.rabbit...
- jacques_chester 7y agoI didn't know that! An interesting history.
- bloomburger 7y agoHow disruptive have the ownership changes been over the last few years? From going public now back to private? ANY thoughts on the strategic value if PVTL under the VMware umbrella? Already close partners will the acquisition really make any difference?