Oh, Sun and Oracle isn’t the only merger story to be obsessed with. How about the intriguing VMware-SpringSource tie-up, which has the advantage of not being a mired in regulatory hell, forever? The recently concluded VMworld conference brought some interesting insight into the nature of the future company, with this quote from SpringSource’s always-quotable Rod Johnson:You really want to conceal the complexity that comes underneath. The ultimate goal of Spring was that you write your business logic, and Spring just does everything for you … It’s the same experience for the entire stack. You shouldn’t be thinking, as a developer, “What OS is in that?” That’s a detail. What you should think about is, “What is my experience when I architect my application? What is the SLA I wish to apply to the application? If I have a range of applications, what am I willing to pay to run them? What are any compliance policies associated with this application?”I hate to sound like a cynic after only a decade of covering this industry, but the idea that you would be able to just write your “business logic” (which is, you know, like regular logic, but for businesses) and then some magic underlying infrastructure would take it from there has been the holy grail for as long as I can remember. Will the VMware-SpringSource juggernaut at long last be the thing that delivers it? I don’t know, but I have to say that, well, I’ll believe it when I see it. I do think it’s interesting that the age-old dream running Java without wondering about the “detail” of the underlying OS is being achieved atop a tottering pile (sorry, “stack”) of software. For an intriguingly in-depth look at what this merger might mean for the virutalization market, check out this piece from Massimo Re Ferre. And, of course, there are some folks who simply do not care for the idea. Technology Industry