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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arcanemachiner 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Good lord, I didn't know their tentacles were that deep. VMware sure had a lot of touch points.

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uzername 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		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.

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abraae 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Holy shit, Broadcom owns Spring? Yikes.

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zdkaster 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That's probability of 1.0, the missing question is when.

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ahoka 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes, same here. Wonder how they will try to monetize it.