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Yes, but keeping it as its own entity.

And VMWare owns SpringSource. So basically the Spring framework is owned by Dell.

> And VMWare owns SpringSource

VMware hasn't owned SpringSource since Pivotal was created in 2013 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpringSource (i.e. "the Spring framework is owned by Dell" is still accurate, but not through Dell owning VMware)

I was under the assumption that VMWare owned Pivotal after it was spun off. I would assume at the least that VMware owns a large share.

Pivotal is mostly owned by Dell/EMC (60%), followed by VMware (22.5%), and the balance by GE (10%), Ford (5%) and Microsoft (2.5%). The percentages are educated guesses based on the original 70/30 split EMC-VMware.

The reason I think is that a lot of the of the revenue producing assets came from EMC (Pivotal Labs and Greenplum), VMware had SpringSource & GemFire which were decent revenue, but Cloud Foundry made no money until 2014+ (and now accounts for a large chunk of revenue).

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