Spring is still wholly owned by EMC (and thus, Dell) through Pivotal.  Boot and Spring Cloud is seeing a renaissance in its adoption and evolution.   It was hard for VMware to know what to do with it previously because the whole vFabric and Cloud Foundry thing was Paul Maritz&#x27; brainchild - not part of traditional VMware culture or mindset.<p>Tucci has a track record of making some very good acquisitions (VMware, XTremIO, Isilon, DSSD, etc) and incubating new ideas (Pivotal).  He needs to retire though, and this the Federation needs a new head to keep this ship aloft.   Will it work?  Who knows!  Elliott meant they had to do something.