Oracle Kills Virtual Iron 189
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kdawson
from the all-your-VMs-are-belong-to-us dept.
from the all-your-VMs-are-belong-to-us dept.
rhathar writes in with news that Oracle is killing off the products of Virtual Iron, a month after purchasing the company. Reports say that all but 10 to 15 staff were let go. The Reg article speculates that Oracle bought VI for its technology and considers its customers and partners expendable. When the Sun purchase finalizes, Oracle will be in possession of three separate virtualization technologies all based on Xen. "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.' One partner said, 'So basically, anyone that built their hosting infrastructure on VI... is now totally in the s–.'"
But Open Source if flakey and you cannot rely... (Score:4, Funny)
But commercial software is oh so much better as it has guaranteed support and you can rely on in and they have roadmaps and shit.
But closed source is more safe and reliable (Score:1, Funny)
Gartner said so! How can we rely on a bunch of Open Source enthusiasts (ok admittedly many of whom work for companies like Red Hat, Novell, etc.) to make a real virtualization product? Now I'm going to have to cross-discipline my internal processes to maximize the ROI alpha factor in order to deal with this situation!
NOT totally in the s--- (Score:5, Funny)
VI customers could just switch to emacs.
They made the product even more virtual (Score:1, Funny)
The product allowed people to eliminate physical boxes and still run dozens or hundreds of logical servers. Now, Oracle has discovered how to do away with customer support and engineering, too. Kinda like the next wave of virtualization - Virtual Virtual ("V-Squared") Iron, only from Oracle.
Re:3 words from Oracle to existing VI customers... (Score:3, Funny)
I thought it was "Emacs, Emacs, Emacs!" or "Developers, developers, developers!"
Re:But Open Source if flakey and you cannot rely.. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:NOT totally in the s--- (Score:4, Funny)
VI customers could just switch to emacs.
HERETIC!!