Garnet pegmatite and allied rock types and in certain low grade metamorphic phyllites. Spessartine of an orange-yellow is found in Madagascar. Violet-red spessartines are found in rhyolites in Colorado and Maine. Blue pyrope–spessartine garnets were discovered in the late 1990s in Bekily, Madagascar. This type has also been found in parts of the United States, Russia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Turkey. It changes color from blue-green to purple depending on the color temperature of viewing light, as a result of the relatively high amounts of vanadium (about 1 wt.% VO). Other varieties of color-changing garnets exist. In daylight, their color ranges from
Gemstone (database) web application server platform. (VisualWave and VisualWorks are now owned by Cincom.) GemStone played an important sponsorship role in the Smalltalk Industry Council at the time when IBM was backing VisualAge Smalltalk, now owned by Instantiations, Inc. After a major transition, GemStone for Smalltalk continued as "GemStone/S" and various C++ and Java products for scalable, multitier architecture distributed computing systems evolved into the "GemStone/J" product. This in turn gave rise to "GemFire", an early example of a Data Fabric for complex event processing (CEP), event stream processing (ESP), data virtualization, and distributed caching. On May 6, 2010, SpringSource, a division