Spring Source has created new offering called VMforce. It is a joint offering from Spring Source and salesforce.com. It is a combination Spring's cloud computing technology expertise and salesforce.com's well known business applications deployed as clouds.
A development team can develop an application in STS (Spring Tool Suite based on Eclipse) and deploy in VMware's vFabric Could Application Platform. Then application will be up and running in clod :-) so don't need to worry about hardware, server etc..
Your application can be integrated with built in Tools of force.com like dashboards, analytics, reporting, search and visual process management.
Overall seems to be very interesting and moves the application into production with faster pace. However it need to understand more about VMforce the framework..
