Springsource
SpringSource builds Java infrastructure software which eliminates the complexity of enterprise Java.
They created Spring, the de facto standard platform to build, run, and manage enterprise Java applications and employ the leading committers for Apache Tomcat and is the leading Tomcat support provider.
Interesting facts about SpringSource:
- More than 96% of our customers renew our services each year
- Job listings for Java developers with Spring expertise now exceed listings specifying Oracle WebLogic and IBM WebSphere backgrounds
- Cumulative downloads for Spring have surpassed the 3,000,000 milestone on SourceForge and more than 5,000,000 estimated total downloads worldwide across all download sources
- SpringSource has grown 250% year-over-year in quarterly bookings and has more than doubled revenues for the third consecutive year
SpringSource offers a host of production ready, enterprise grade products that are professional, tested and hardened for enterprise use and available with full commercial support.
Groovy & Grails
In addition, with its recent acquistion of G2one, SpringSource now offers global enterprise support offerings for developers and IT operations that utilize Groovy and Grails applications. Groovy is an open source, dynamic language for the JVM that offers a flexible Java-like syntax that all Java developers can learn in a matter of hours.
Grails is an open source, advanced and innovative web application framework based on Groovy, and built on proven and high-performance open source solutions such as Spring.
The open source-based Spring Portfolio is a comprehensive enterprise application framework designed on long-standing themes of simplicity and power. With more than five million downloads to date, Spring has become an integral part of the enterprise applications infrastructure at organizations worldwide. SpringSource offers very comprehensive support, consulting and training services for these technologies.
At the Irish Java Technologies Conference, SpringSource speakers Sam Brannen (Read Bio) will deliver a session showing delegates how to build web applications on the SpringSource DM Server,(Read Abstract) and Guillaume Laforge (Read Bio) makes a trip for the second year in a row to present on Groovy (Read Abstract).
To learn more, visit the SpringSource website where details of their upcoming Dublin based training course can be found.
Jeff Genender - Apache
Manik Surtani - JBoss
Sam Brannen - Springsource
Kevin Noonan - Calbane
Werner Keil - Creative Arts and Technologies
Guillaume Laforge - G2One
Chris Davey - Accenture
Gary Tully - Progress Software
Charles Oliver Nutter - SUN
Jean-Frederic Mesnil - JBoss
Guillaume Nodet - Progress Software
Tony Jewtushenko - Product Innovator
Jasper Potts - SUN Microsystems
Antony Reynolds - Oracle
Claudio Perrone - InnerWorkings
