Spring and/or Interface21 to be acquired? Luckily not!

The Spring framework (and the connected Interface21 company) seems to get more and more attention in the Java community, and so there are rumours about the future ... I almost fell off my chair when I first read the rumours that Oracle was showing interest in Interface21, but luckily this was just a rumour .. (imagine!)
Some interesting articles came out of these rumours:
"Spring is in the air" on eweek.com mentioned the kind of attention Spring framework is getting with "Last month, Gartner recognized Interface21 as a "cool" vendor, citing..". Excellent!
"Spring's Interface21 for sale? Apparently not" on TheServerSide was the article that eased my mind today (phew!). I like the 'Dinosaur' thing .. look for it :-) .. Never knew I met a lot of dinosaurs :-)