About Us
SpringSource is the company behind Spring, the leading platform to build and run enterprise Java applications, as well as Grails and Groovy. SpringSource Cloud Foundry is based on SpringSource’s recent acquisition of Cloud Foundry, Inc., an Oakland, Calif.-based software company. Cloud Foundry is built on the innovative open-source Cloud Tools project and extends SpringSource’s solutions for building, deploying and managing Java applications to take full advantage of the power of elastic cloud computing.
Cloud Foundry and Cloud Tools are the brainchild of Chris Richardson, who is a developer and architect with over 20 years of experience. He is the author of POJOs in Action, which describes how to build enterprise Java applications with POJOs and lightweight frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate. Chris has been a technical leader at Insignia, BEA, and elsewhere and recently was nominated a Java Champion. Chris has spoken at various conferences including No Fluff Just Stuff Java Symposium, SD West, JavaPolis, SpringOne, the Colorado Software Summit and JavaOne. He is also the co-chair of the East Bay Java SIG. Chris has a degree in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge, England. Blog: chris-richardson.blog-city.com