It's Just Another Layer » solaris http://itsjustanotherlayer.com Virtualization is a layer in software. What are you abstracting away from? Sat, 03 Sep 2011 23:33:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Virtual Iron dead in the water? http://itsjustanotherlayer.com/2009/07/virtual-iron-dead-in-the-water/ http://itsjustanotherlayer.com/2009/07/virtual-iron-dead-in-the-water/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:19:36 +0000 iguy http://itsjustanotherlayer.com/?p=163 Continue reading →]]> Is this true?  If so what’s Oracle’s game plan? They just buy Virtual Iron for a virtualization management. Appear to have a clue since they are buying Sun with a huge virtualization skill set and product line. Then this info comes along?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/19/oracle_kills_virtual_iron/

In a letter to Virtual Iron’s sales partners, Oracle says it “will suspend development of existing Virtual Iron products and will suspend delivery of orders to new customers.” And in a second letter to a partner speaking with The Reg, the company says it will not allow partners to sell new licenses to anyone – including existing customers – after the end of this month.

So is Oracle’s plan just to cannibalize Sun & Virtual Iron’s code and forsake all the customers they bought?

Makes me pretty sad since I’m a big Sun fan with OpenSolaris and I have the fear that they will do the same thing there.

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