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I'm still waiting to see how Broadcom will monetize the Spring ecosystem - which is widely used in almost all large enterprises. Sadly, it feels like an inevit
by martypitt 1y ago
I'm still waiting to see how Broadcom will monetize the Spring ecosystem - which is widely used in almost all large enterprises.
Sadly, it feels like an inevitability at this point.
- arcanemachiner 1y agoGood lord, I didn't know their tentacles were that deep. VMware sure had a lot of touch points.
- beachy 1y agoHoly shit, Broadcom owns Spring? Yikes.
- zdkaster 1y agoThat's probability of 1.0, the missing question is when.
- ahoka 1y agoYes, same here. Wonder how they will try to monetize it.
- uzername 1y agoMy team is worried about that too. We've been a java and spring shop for years. We're looking at micronaut, it's similar enough. When I had someone from another team take a look at broadcom and what they could do to spring, they said the licenses are permissive, it will be fine. Likely not that simple.
- martypitt 1y agoMy guess will be: - Shorter support windows, with longer support available for purchase (VMWare actually introduced this, but Broadcom can weaponize it) - Then Enterprise Spring, which has additional features - Then some other license shenaningans. Hazelcast recently made the move where CVE security updates are only released into the OSS ecosystem quarterly - whereas the enterprise model gets them as soon as they're ready. In OSS, you have to rebuild and patch yourself. That's a special kind of evil, which has Broadcom DNA all over it.