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With Pivotal about to pull funding for Groovy, the dynamic language project is moving over to the Apache Software Foundation. Groovy has been formally submitted to Apache and is on a path to becoming a top-level project, Apache said on Wednesday.

Pivotal has prioritized around its Cloud Foundry PaaS platform, project lead Guillaume Laforge said in an email on Wednesday. This has left Groovy and the accompanying Grails Web development framework on the outside looking in at the company. "In a nutshell, Pivotal is refocusing essentially around its Cloud Foundry PaaS platform," Laforge said, "and feels that Groovy -- and Grails -- are less strategic to it regarding that new focus."

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