Looks to me like FB acquired the people rather than the technology... The blog post from the founder: http://blog.strobecorp.com/?p=304 http://blog.strobecorp.c

Looks to me like FB acquired the people rather than the technology... The blog post from the founder: http://blog.strobecorp.com/?p=304 http://blog.strobecorp.com/?p=304 I think it's quite clear from that post: "SproutCore, meanwhile, will continue as an independent project." So FB was not interested by SproutCore but rather by the people. In a way it's not too surprising since FB most likely have their own way of dealing with HTML 5 and delivering web apps. With various folks from Strobe leaving prior to today's announcement lead me to believe that Strobe was not doing that well and was going most likely to close down but they tried to sell off and FB saw an interest in the team rather than the technology.