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- What to make of Sun buying Innotek?
- What to make of Sun buying Innotek?VirtualBox userI'm quite happy with using VirtualBox, and with this decision too. Don't see it as a bad one at all yet.If what, there's always an open-source version of virtualbox in major repositories.RE: What to make of Sun buying Innotek?I think Sun are suffering...
- Tags: Virtualization, Sun Solaris, Storage management, Utility computing, Operating systems, innotek VirtualBox, Sun Microsystems Inc., InnoTek
- Discussion threads 2008-02-15
- VirtualBox (msi)
- InnoTek VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software. VirtualBox has an extremely modular design with well-defined internal programming interfaces and a client/server design. The configuration settings of...
- Tags: Innotek VirtualBox, InnoTek, InnoTek VirtualBox, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-01-08
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- Virtualization smackdown: Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6 vs. VMWare Server 2.0 Beta 2
- Once strictly the domain of software developers and QA engineers, personal and small-business virtualization products are now becoming an attractive solution for entry-level systems consolidation and foreign OS compatibility applications. These solutions run on host operating systems which do not require the overhead or usual high entry cost of professional...
- Tags: Innotek VirtualBox, Version, Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., VMware Inc., Beta, Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6 xVM VirtualBox, Linux Setup, VMWare Server 2.0 Beta 2 VMWare Server 2.0, VMWare 2.0, Linux, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Storage, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Sun xVM Virtualbox puts Mac on x86
- The newest version of Sun's xVM Virtualbox adds support for Apple's OSX. (Mac ad satire from Jazebski.Pl in Poland.) The new version is dubbed Version 2.6 and was released during last week's CommunityDays event. This is the first open source virtualization to support the...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Sun Microsystems Inc., Intel X86, Sun xVM Virtualbox, Virtualization, Desktops, Server Virtualization, Hardware, Servers, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- OpenSolaris: What Ubuntu wants to be when it grows up
- What would Ubuntu be like if it were an OS for grown-ups? This week at its CommunityOne event in San Francisco, Sun will release its May 2008 build of OpenSolaris (2008.05) the Open Source operating system based on the source code of the...
- Tags: Ubuntu, OpenSolaris, Sun Solaris 10, Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., BSD, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- Sun completes MySQL purchase; Eyes more open source acquisitions
- Sun said Tuesday that it has completed the purchase of MySQL for $1 billion and CEO Jonathan Schwartz indicated the company plans to keep shopping for open source acquisitions. "Open source is really in the DNA of Sun," said Schwartz on a conference call to trumpet MySQL...
- Tags: Acquisition, MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan Schwartz, Mergers & Acquisitions, Open Source, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- A quick Presidents' Day post
- A quick Presidents' Day postOK, Chris...If you're posting a blog entry to say you're taking the day off from blogging, you're not taking the day off from blogging. ;-)You paid handsomely for that alleged Mac ease of useThe Mac is a FreeBSD box. But nobody likes FreeBSD and...
- Tags: UNIX, Desktops, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, education world, Apple Macintosh, Linux, FreeBSD, software, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-18
- Review: Microsoft's Hyper-V puts VMWare and Linux on notice
- After his last foray into the "Linux guy reviews a Microsoft product" space, Jason Perlow is back -- this time to take a look at Microsoft's Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualization solution built into the newly released Windows Server 2008. Although Hyper-V is still in beta and isn't slated to ship...
- Tags: Hypervisor, Disadvantage, Operating System, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Xen, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, News, VMWare ESX, Hyper-V, Jason Perlow, Virtualization, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Hardware, Software, Storage, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- What to make of Sun buying Innotek?
- You can take the company out of the proprietary software market, but you can't take the proprietary attitude out of the company. I think that's the best way to explain Sun's purchase of Innotek, the German developer of the open source VirtualBox. Microsoft now...
- Tags: Innotek VirtualBox, Sun Microsystems Inc., VMware Inc., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- Sun acquires innotek
- I just read the notice that Sun had acquired innotek, the creators of Virtualbox, a virtual machine software product. Before I had a chance to really look into this move, I wondered why Sun would acquire another virtual machine software product when it had a program to integrate the Xen...
- Tags: Innotek VirtualBox, Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., Virtual Machine, Innotek GmbH, Sun xVM Server, Virtualization, Data Centers, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Software, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- Microsoft aims at VMware's virtualization lead
- Microsoft aims at VMware's virtualization leadVMware is yesterday's story...Microsoft's virtualization products really kick butt. Their complete and total inability to run Linux or Solaris decently means no engineering time is wasted on has-been OS's. The "all Windows, all the time" mantra is certainly where I want to be and I...
- Tags: Storage management, Utility computing, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., VMware Inc., virtualization, IT World, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-09-07
- Is IBM close to avenging OS/2's death?
- Is IBM close to avenging OS/2's death?Maybe, but don't forgetIBM's support for OS/2 was lukewarm from the outset; it was the OS for PS/2, and Big Blue considered an OS to be an appendage to the hardware, not the centerpiece. It was the clones that rose up to smite...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, IBM Corp., IBM OS/2, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-04-27
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