{"id":6259,"date":"2011-03-08T12:09:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T18:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/?p=6259"},"modified":"2011-03-08T12:09:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T18:09:45","slug":"paaside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2011\/03\/08\/paaside\/","title":{"rendered":"A PaaS IDE? VMWare buys WaveMaker &#8211; Quick Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VMware announced it&#8217;s acquisition of WaveMaker this morning. VMWare, of course, has the Spring portfolio as its application development group, and WaveMaker being an in-browser IDE for developing Spring-based Java applications looks to be a technological and business fit.<\/p>\n<p>Technologically, VMWare is interested in seeing wider Java-based application development, esp. in the &#8220;line of business&#8221; area that the easier to use WaveMaker tool targets. As I so often quip, you don&#8217;t hear about Rapid Application Development (RAD) anymore, but the need for tools that allow more junior (or just cheaper) programmers to create applications hasn&#8217;t ever gone away. I discussed this with Chirs Keene last fall in this RedMonk interview:<\/p>\n<p class=\"video embed\">\n<p>More forward looking, WaveMaker is a good fit for a PaaS, having a sort of wiki approach to applications running in the cloud. As Rod Johnson says, &#8220;WaveMaker as a service will fit naturally with our cloud computing strategy, including <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.springsource.com\/2010\/10\/21\/springone2gx-2010-driving-java-innovation-into-the-cloud\/\">Code2Cloud<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Related to this is the recently announced <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.eclipse.org\/Orion\">Eclipse Orion project<\/a> which is seeking to make an in-browser IDE. So far, it&#8217;s looking interesting &#8211; check out <a href=\"http:\/\/live.eclipse.org\/node\/1006\">this webinar from a few days ago<\/a>. And, of course, <a href=\"https:\/\/mozillalabs.com\/skywriter\/\">Bespin\/Skywriter<\/a> has had a lot of interest historically in this space.<\/p>\n<h2>More<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.springsource.com\/2011\/03\/08\/vmware-acquires-wavemaker\/\">VMWare&#8217;s Rod Johnson outlines the reasoning behind the purchase<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.keeneview.com\/2011\/03\/wavemaker-springs-to-vmware.html\">WaveMaker&#8217;s Chris Keene&#8217;s blog post on the topic<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Disclosure:<\/b> VMWare and WaveMaker are clients, as is the Eclipse Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A PaaS IDE?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,43,24],"tags":[58,127,360,574,815,823],"class_list":["post-6259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud","category-development-tools","category-quick","tag-acquisitions","tag-bespin","tag-ide","tag-orion","tag-vmware","tag-wavemaker"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}