Sun's New VirtualBox
Sun just bought innotek and will add VirtualBox to our portfolio of
open source software. Here are some links I collected:
Sun Microsystems Announces Agreement to Acquire innotek, Expanding Sun xVM Reach to the Developer Desktop: "VirtualBox provides Sun with the perfect complement to our recently announced Sun xVM Server product," said Rich Green, executive vice president, Sun Software. "Where Sun xVM Server is designed to enable dynamic IT at the heart of the datacenter, VirtualBox is ideal for any laptop or desktop environment and will align perfectly with Sun's other developer focused assets such as GlassFish, OpenSolaris, OpenJDK and soon MySQL."
Sun virtualizes for developers with Innotek buy: "This is very much part and parcel of what is probably Sun's single greatest thrust -- to reconnect with the development community." -- Gordon Haff
VirtualBox: "We think this tool is incredibly useful for developers because most developers want to target multiple operating systems to maximise their audience and return on the time they've invested in their applications, and tools like VirtualBox let them do that by running everything - test environments, debug environments, etc. - on a single laptop." -- Tim Marsland
This Isn't Your Dad's Desktop Virtualization: "VirtualBox is unique because it's completely free and open source, and supports almost every OS known to man. It's no wonder that it's been downloaded over four million times in just over a year." -- Steve Wilson
Sun Looks to VirtualBox to Attract Developers: eWeek
On Snowglobes, xVM and Freedom: "The grand plan, inclusive of Innotek, and like most everything we do in software at Sun, has a focus on developers." -- Rich Green
Sun to buy VirtualBox maker Innotek: "Having a virtual lab story -- assuming it works and developers and QA like it -- is good for a developer-friendly company like Sun." -- Michael Coté
Sun nabs innotek's 20MB of open source, virtualized goodness: The Register
Sun Microsystems Announces Agreement to Acquire innotek, Expanding Sun xVM Reach to the Developer Desktop: "VirtualBox provides Sun with the perfect complement to our recently announced Sun xVM Server product," said Rich Green, executive vice president, Sun Software. "Where Sun xVM Server is designed to enable dynamic IT at the heart of the datacenter, VirtualBox is ideal for any laptop or desktop environment and will align perfectly with Sun's other developer focused assets such as GlassFish, OpenSolaris, OpenJDK and soon MySQL."
Sun virtualizes for developers with Innotek buy: "This is very much part and parcel of what is probably Sun's single greatest thrust -- to reconnect with the development community." -- Gordon Haff
VirtualBox: "We think this tool is incredibly useful for developers because most developers want to target multiple operating systems to maximise their audience and return on the time they've invested in their applications, and tools like VirtualBox let them do that by running everything - test environments, debug environments, etc. - on a single laptop." -- Tim Marsland
This Isn't Your Dad's Desktop Virtualization: "VirtualBox is unique because it's completely free and open source, and supports almost every OS known to man. It's no wonder that it's been downloaded over four million times in just over a year." -- Steve Wilson
Sun Looks to VirtualBox to Attract Developers: eWeek
On Snowglobes, xVM and Freedom: "The grand plan, inclusive of Innotek, and like most everything we do in software at Sun, has a focus on developers." -- Rich Green
Sun to buy VirtualBox maker Innotek: "Having a virtual lab story -- assuming it works and developers and QA like it -- is good for a developer-friendly company like Sun." -- Michael Coté
Sun nabs innotek's 20MB of open source, virtualized goodness: The Register
I love VirtualBox. It's one of my favorite VMs, and it's free. I hope Sun gets it and makes the Mac version better. I know how many Macs Sun owns and it would only make sense.
Posted by David Vasta on February 14, 2008 at 09:39 AM JST #
Yeah but what about the other legacy products that Innotek has made?. I hope those are not abandoned.
Posted by Willy on February 16, 2008 at 07:56 PM JST #