> Gradle is Ant in Groovy clothing Gradle's purpose is to muscle in on the consulting / conference market for Ant, just as Grails's purpose as wrapper around S

> Gradle is Ant in Groovy clothing Gradle's purpose is to muscle in on the consulting / conference market for Ant, just as Grails's purpose as wrapper around Spring and Hibernate was initially to muscle in on their consulting businesses. Now they've hooked in enough users, their bait and switch business strategy is now to screw them for as much money as they can. So if you use Gradle now, you'll pay the cost later on after Gradleware is sold to some GE or VMWare or EDS or Oracle.