Thursday, 14 February 2008

Sun Microsystems Acquires innotek, Expands Sun xVM Reach to Developer Desktop

Sun Microsystems, Inc. has entered into a stock purchase agreement to acquire innotek, the provider of the leading edge, open source virtualization software called VirtualBox.

In a statement, Sun said that VirtualBox’s ability to enable developers to more efficiently build, test and run applications on multiple platforms will extend the Sun xVM platform onto the desktop and strengthen Sun's leadership in the virtualization market.

"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 as well as a wide range of community open source projects, enabling developers to quickly develop, test and deploy the next generation of applications."