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A massive merger between two companies brings together an impressive amount of hardware and software prowess. But with Dell acquiring EMC, what’ll be the focus? Will Pivotal still go public? What about Spring? Many are asking the same questions.

Spring Security 4.0.0 has landed with support for testing, Spring Data integration, plus support for WebSockets. The Java/Java EE framework hopes to keep up with exploits against applications as they evolve.

Pivotal has unveiled a new version of its Big Data Suite, which should allow users to discover the value data analytics has for them. For the first time, the source code of the Pivotal tool has been opened to the community.

As Pivotal’s final weeks of Groovy sponsorship draw to an end, the latest developments show a promising outlook in terms of new funding and movement. But who is set to take up the Groovy sponsorship reigns and what are the expectations for the jump?

Many commentators are weighing in on Pivotal’s recent decision to withdraw support for Groovy, and a number of open source advocates have come out in defence of the JVM language. Lukas Eder argues it was “doomed to fail”.

Does open source need to be profitable? Lukas Eder weighs in on the open source funding debate, following Pivotal’s surprise decision to cut support for Groovy and Grails.

Following Pivotal’s surprise decision to withdraw support from Groovy and Grails, Graeme Rocher, project lead of Grails at Pivotal, spoke to us about the future of the web development framework.

Groovy 2.4 has restored part of the JVM language’s mojo – this latest release is the first to officially provide support for running Groovy on Android.

Pivotal have announced they are withdrawing their support of Groovy and the accompanying Grails framework after their next major releases in March.

CloudBees CEO explains to JAXenter why they’’re letting go of RUN@Cloud and focusing on Jenkins.

Pivotal‘s Martin Lippert outlines Eclipse’s groundbreaking new server-facing project.

Spun-out Pivotal body gains momentum as big names put their support (and their cash) into the potential PaaS leader.

A practical introduction to the Federation plugin by Alvaro Videla, author of ‘RabbitMQ in Action’.

JAXenter talks MQTT with Pivotal’s Andy Piper, and finds out the latest from the Cloud Foundry. Filmed at JAX London 2013.