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.
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.
Good lord, I didn't know their tentacles were that deep. VMware sure had a lot of touch points.
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.
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.
Holy shit, Broadcom owns Spring? Yikes.
That's probability of 1.0, the missing question is when.
Yes, same here. Wonder how they will try to monetize it.