Sun spots virtual opportunity to stifle VMWare
OS/2 skeletal remains escape closet
"SUNNY CALIFORNIAN firm Sun Microsystems of Java and OpenOffice.org fame announced yesterday its intention to acquire German software firm Innotek Systemberatung GmbH. The outfit specialises in virtualisation software with its Virtualbox x86 line.
Ironically, this German firm was the company which about six years ago ported Virtual PC version 5.x to the IBM OS/2 platform, allowing Warp users for the first time to run 32-bit windows under OS/2 as a host. Of course, once the Microsoft Vole set its sights on Connectix' virtualisation technology, the first thing it did was to kill the OS/2 hosted version."
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