Oracle To Stop Developing Sun Virtualization Technologies 145
hypnosec writes "Oracle will soon be announcing its decision to stop development of Sun virtualization technologies including Sun Ray Software and Hardware, Oracle Virtual Desktop Client, and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) product lines. In an update to its support policies [Oracle support login required] for virtualization software and hardware, the database company has revealed that this decision is a result of its efforts to 'tightly align Oracle's future desktop virtualization portfolio investments with Oracle Corporation's overall core business strategy.'"
Clairification- VirtualBox is being continued (Score:5, Informative)
As I had to RTFA to figure this out, thought I'd pass on that VirtualBox is still going to be actively developed.
VirtualBox: Don't panic! (Score:5, Informative)
If, like me, the summary freaked you out, you'll be happy to hear that VirtualBox is not getting the axe.
Re:Clairification- VirtualBox is being continued (Score:5, Informative)
For now.
Virtualbox is GPLed free software. Oracle owns the domain and trademark, so they could force everyone to change the name, and they could use FUD to scare people off. But they cannot kill it. It would be like their efforts to kill MySQL and OpenOffice. Those projects were set back some, and renamed, but they live on.
Re:What does Oracle even do anymore? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Soon they kill Solaris (Score:4, Informative)
This has nothing to do with that kind of virtualization. A much better headline would be: