Craig Walls wrote:But this does not mean that SpringSource has abandoned those projects...that is far from the truth.
I agree that wasn't a good choice of words. But I think it's fair to say that they wouldn't have spun it off if they believed that it was still a strategic asset that they could make into something more successful on their own. Which, as the blog post explaining the move stated, is more of a comment on enterprise software in general (and OSGi's role in it) than of dm Server in particular.
I'll reserve my opinion of Impala for another time.
I'd be curious to hear those opinions, though, offline if you prefer (no need to spare me, I'm not involved in the project :-)