May 11, 2007 10:58 AM PDT

Spring developer Interface21 lands $10 million in funding

Posted by Martin LaMonica

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Interface21, the company behind the Java-based Spring Framework, said on Thursday that it has received $10 million in venture funding from Benchmark Capital.

The funding will be used to expand the company's sales and support infrastructure.

The Spring Framework is a popular open-source tool for speeding up development of corporate server Java applications. Interface21, which makes money providing support and training around Spring, said that the framework is more widely deployed in a single Java application server.

Benchmark Capital has had a good track record of spotting successful open-source firms, having invested in Red Hat, MySQL and JBoss.

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer for CNET's Green Tech blog. He started at CNET News in 2002, covering IT and Web development. Before that, he was executive editor at IT publication InfoWorld. E-mail Martin.

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