Microsoft is becoming the cool company once again by embracing open-source technologies and contributing to various other OS projects. They are refocusing their business all around Azure subscriptions.
I am not a rails developer but I have seen that rails developer have alot of inertia and they won't switch to grails. Grails is only attracting Java developers who are fed up of exhaustive configurations. Unfortunately books written for grails also assume that you are switching from one of java to grails.
>Did you know that VMWare pulled its funding for their 6 developers working on Groovy and Grails last March?
Because they shifted their focus to CloudFoundry only. This does not mean that Groovy or Grails are going to die.
>There might not be much more work or maintenance done on either Groovy or Grails from now on.
Yes. I am closely following grails development and you are true in this regards. There was no doubt a disturbance in community and even we were concerned about its future when we were in initial stages of our project. Right now, we are confident that this duo won't die anytime soon.
>Two of them got jobs as Grails consultants for Object Computing,
Good for Grails future as OCI has been providing grails based services in the past and is committed to grails future.
>two of them (one former Groovy tech and one former Grails) got jobs at Gradleware working on Gradle
Gradle being Groovy based is being used in Grails as well. Again it is good for the duo.
>one (the former Groovy P.M.) an unrelated job in France
The only part which scares me is that people will start making Linux apps using dotnet technologies.
>Also, times are changing man, for the better. Embrace it
Yup. That is why MS had to realize that *nix is eclipsing it in cloud and to grab extra some extra pennies out of our pockets, they are releasing their products on these platform just to fool us that they care. Actually they don't care us at all.
Let's call this a suicide attack and this co-pilot a terrorist. Secondly, find out his religion and prefix this with terrorist. Prefixing his race will also be a plus point. Once all unknowns are calculated, ask his religion/race fellows to apologize this act of terrorism.