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Facebook Acquires HTML5 App Delivery Network Strobe, SproutCore Lives On

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Looks to me like FB acquired the people rather than the technology... The blog post from the founder: http://blog.strobecorp.com/?p=304

I think it's quite clear from that post: "SproutCore, meanwhile, will continue as an independent project."

So FB was not interested by SproutCore but rather by the people. In a way it's not too surprising since FB most likely have their own way of dealing with HTML 5 and delivering web apps. With various folks from Strobe leaving prior to today's announcement lead me to believe that Strobe was not doing that well and was going most likely to close down but they tried to sell off and FB saw an interest in the team rather than the technology.

As SproutCore was still in the middle of a major rewrite / transition, it would be good to hear if Facebook intends to continue to support SproutCore directly as an open-source project, or not.

From the sound of the blog post (http://blog.strobecorp.com/?p=304) it looks like there will be no official support.

Sounds like SproutCore will still be worked on outside of Facebook:

https://twitter.com/#!/wycats/status/133955395013181440

https://twitter.com/#!/wycats/status/133651471983050753

SproutCore 2.0 is very much alive. Tom Dale and I have been working on it since we left Strobe over a month ago, and have been using it quite a bit in client projects.

The feature we've been working on recently is to eliminate the <span> wrappers around data-bound DOM elements and bound collections. We landed that patch (and created a new library in the process, https://github.com/tomhuda/metamorph.js/) and are fixing some bugs that have come up since we landed it.

Expect a release announcement, as well as more specifics about where we go from here in the next few days.

I wouldn't expect you to know, or if you did know, be able to disclose ... but I was more curious about the rest of the team that's now headed out to Facebook. Looking forward to the upcoming announcement / blog post.

Wondered what was going on here, as yesterday it became clear that a few well known names had left the company...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3207470

Never quite understood the need for the Strobe platform to start with, but it seems it is now dead (left in beta). I hope not many of you planned on using it...

Facebook has been acquiring a lot of technological talent, especially in design.

I've seen at least two TC videos where Facebook understands that the future of their product is mobile. It will be interesting to see in the long term if they can push the end user to the web. Today users are infatuated with native apps. I don't see that changing in the short term (5-7 years).

Congrats to everyone at Strobe!!

maybe carlhuda is going to do to facebook what "he" did to rails :). talent worth acquiring imho.

guess I was wrong... the carlhuda beast is already grazing other pastures

It sounds interesting but was there a market for what they built? I'm kind of curious why Facebook was interested in this network, or why this company was so quick to throw in the towel?

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