It's almost 24 hours after the fact, but here's my writeup on the SpringOne/2GX Day 2 Keynote that was given by Adrian Colyer, Karl Rumelhart, and Chris Richardson. I won't go over it in detail as I did with Rod Johnson's keynote...instead I'll just summarize it as best as I can.
The keynote started with Adrian telling a rather humorous story about his luggage. He then went on to try to make sense of what has gone on in the past year with SpringSource, specifically with regard to the various acquisitions (G2One, Hyperic, CloudFoundry, and ultimately the VMWare acquisition of SpringSource).
To help make his point, he called Chris Richardson (founder of CloudFoundry) to the stage to provide a quick demonstration of CloudFoundry. Chris' demo involved deploying a Roo application to the cloud using CloudFoundry.
Adrian resumed the keynote by discussing the notion of deployment blueprints. Deployment blueprints describe the pieces that come together to make up the virtual deployment in the cloud.
Chris then returned to the stage to provide a demo of the new CloudFoundry plugin in SpringSource ToolSuite.
Finally, Kyle Rumelhart takes the stage to describe some of VMWare's products and technologies geared toward the private cloud.
I realize that this summary has been quite brief. To be honest, I was having a hard time following along during the keynote because (1) I was tired, (2) I was too consumed thinking about my talk that I'd be giving today, and (3) while all of it is very interesting, much of what was being shown is less development-oriented and more IT-oriented...especially the private cloud stuff.
