Sun Microsystems, whose co-founder and Chairman Scott McNealy once described Microsoft’s Internet Information Server as “the Corvair of Web servers–unsafe at any speed” has become a Windows Server OEM.
Extending a partnership first struck in 2004, Sun will now resell and install Windows on its x86-based servers. For Sun, the deal is a way to drive [...]
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Well, VMware’s definitely going to get a run for its money now. Not 24 hours after the virtualization leader’s spectacular public offering, Citrix Systems said it would purchase open-source server virtualization outfit XenSource for $500 million in cash and stock.
Five hundred million dollars. Quite a sum–especially when XenSource is burning through $15 million a [...]
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Looking over the trajectory of VMware’s IPO yesterday, you’d think we were still living in the go-go days of the late ’90s. Shares of the virtualization software-maker spiked nearly 76% in their first day of trading, defying the overall market slide and eclipsing Google’s historic 18% first-day gain in 2004. VMware’s shares ended the day [...]
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