Grails & Spring together...

The news is fresh, and unexpected, but big, very big for the Groovy / Grails world. G2One, the company behind Groovy and Grails technologies, was acquired by SpringSource, the company of the popular Spring framework (read the news). What does this mean for the future of Groovy and Grails ? From the technical side, Grails is build on top of Spring, so the integration between the two technologies can be more tighter in the future. Also, SpringSource can dive into the world of dynamic languages backed by a mature and fast growing technology. But the most important thing is not technical but commercial. Backed by SpringSource, Grails will enter in the arena of enterprise applications from the front door. The technology is very good for big projects, as the social network LinkedIn and UK TV broadcasting giant BskyB sites demonstrate, but is still facing a lot of resistance in big and meaningful projects, maybe because it's considered too new or not reliable...This is likely to change in the future as a result of this acquisition. Tell your boss, and to the big boys in your company...Grails is going to become mainstream...