Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1605
From: Digest <deadmail>
To: "OS/2GenAu Digest"<deadmail>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:24 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600

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Wednesday 13 February 2008
 Number  1605
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Subjects for today
 
1   The virtualisation attraction : Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>

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Date:  Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:15:53 +1100
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
Subject:   The virtualisation attraction

What is it with companies that produce os/2 virtualisation products and 
then get bought out ?

 First it was Connectix with VirtualPC (bought by Microsoft) , then it 
was Parallels with SVista (bought by some US investors but kept the 
Parallels name), now it's Innotek and virtualbox being bought by SUN 
Microsystems !

 In this case this is a bigger problem for eComStation than the previous 
actions as, as well as Virtualbox, Innotek has provided OS/2 versions of 
Adobe reader and flash player as well as their version of ODIN and the 
original compilation of VirtualPC/2.

It appears SUN is buying several "open source" companies working on open 
source projects including MySQL. The question is what happens to these 
open source projects ? Is their direction changed or curtailed by SUN ? 
Admitably Open Office (Star Office) is doing well under the SUN 
"parentage" lets hope the other projects also continue !

It's got to only be a matter of time before someone buys Mozilla Corp. 
and has control of the Firefox / Seamonkey / Thunderbird products.

I suspect this is a problem when open source "communities" become 
companies or companies take a large lead in the development. Open source 
can suddenly become "controlled source".

Cheers/2

Ed.

P.S. - here's a strange fact - type innotek in Thunderbird and run the 
spell checker and comes back with the nearest match as bank notes  !! 
That's got to mean something ! - try it yourself.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	[VOICENWS] Net: Sun Microsystems said Tuesday it plans to 
acquire innotek
Date: 	Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:47:54 -0500
From: 	madodel <madodel at ptdprolog dot net>
Reply-To: 	marko at os2voice dot org, feedback at os2voice dot org
To: 	news at os2voice dot org

++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service   http://www.os2voice dot org ++

From: Mark Overholser  <markoDESPAM at DESPAMos2voice dot org>

"Sun Microsystems said Tuesday it plans to acquire innotek, which provides 
the VirtualBox open source virtualization software package."

http://weblog.infoworld dot com/techwatch/archives/015882.html?source=NLC-TECHWATCH&cgd=2008-02-12

A complete press release on the acquisition can be found on Sun's web site:

http://www.sun dot com/aboutsun/pr/2008-02/sunflash.20080212.1.xml

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