I’m on the record as Not Getting The Hype when it comes to cloud stuff; only time will tell whether this makes me like the guy who refused to get on the Network Computer bandwagon in 1997, or the guy who refused to get on the Internet bandwagon in 1994. But that hasn’t stopped everyone else in the world from going stone code nuts, cloud-wise.As I noted before my vacation, VMware’s purchase of SpringSource seemed to be at least partly about putting a Java application infrastructure onto cloud computing platforms; now it turns out that back in June SpringSource had secretly purchased Cloud Foundry Inc. in June, and is now rolling out SpringSource Cloud Foundry, which will make it easier to deploy Spring-based apps to cloud platforms — or, well at the moment, just to Amazon EC2, but by 2010 you should be able to use it with any cloud you want. No word yet on how this matches up with VMware’s larger goals, but this was surely something that interested them when they decided to make their purchase of SpringSource.If there’s one company that’s been eclipsed by the rise of SpringSource, it’s Red Hat’s JBoss. But they’re getting in on the cloud thing too! HornetQ is the new baffling name for JBoss Messaging, though it can be used as a messaging server with other non-JBoss platforms as well (including Spring). And of course it intends to be the “messaging provider of choice in the cloud,” because everyone’s in the cloud these days! EVERYBODY! Yeah, I’m probably the “Internet is a fad” guy from 1994. Cloud Computing