Many of you have probably already read about the announcement this morning from both SpringSource and G2One (Guillaume and Graeme go in to more detail on their respective blogs). What does this mean for Groovy and Grails?

In the short term, probably not actually all that much will change. Neither Graeme nor Guillaume have mentioned any timetable changes for the next Groovy and Grails releases. I suspect that combining resources with SpringSource may help with bug fixing and integration efforts in the immediate future.

Over the slightly longer term, this looks like it'll bolster the training and consulting offerings from SpringSource to address whatever dynamic language needs their customers had. G2One's existing customers will now have access to Spring experts.

The impact over the long haul is still an unknown, though it sounds like all parties involved have many ideas about what they'll be able to accomplish. We'll just need to wait and see what the future holds for Groovy and Grails.