Sun Microsystems Announces Agreement to Acquire innotek
Expanding the reach of Sun xVM to developer and user desktops, Sun today announced a stock purchase agreement to acquire innotek GmbH,
a provider of open source virtualization products for desktop and laptop environments.
| With over four million downloads since January 2007, innotek’s open source VirtualBox product has been quickly established as one of the leading developer desktop virtualization platforms. Now, as part of the Sun xVM portfolio, VirtualBox will have the support of Sun’s global development community, field resources and partners to make VirtualBox even more compelling to developers and end users, driving greater adoption across a broad set of communities. VirtualBox enables desktop or laptop PCs running the Windows, Linux, Mac or Solaris operating systems to run multiple, different operating systems side-by-side, switching between them with just a click of the mouse. This allows software developers to more easily build multi-tier or cross-platform applications, or power-users to take advantage of applications that may not be available for their base operating system of choice. |
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As for the inevitable why questions: Well, I think I'll let Steve Wilson and Vijay Sarathy do the talking. You can also read the press release here. Or the reviews here and here. Or, best of all, download VirtualBox here! |
