Comment by martypitt

6 months 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.

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uzername  6 months ago

My 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  6 months ago

    My 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.