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Oracle To Stop Developing Sun Virtualization Technologies

Posted by samzenpus on from the end-of-the-line dept.

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.'"

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  1. Clairification- VirtualBox is being continued by dcavens · · 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.

    1. Re:Clairification- VirtualBox is being continued by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 4, 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.

  2. VirtualBox: Don't panic! by DigitAl56K · · Score: 4, Informative

    If, like me, the summary freaked you out, you'll be happy to hear that VirtualBox is not getting the axe.

  3. Re:What does Oracle even do anymore? by EvilSS · · Score: 5, Informative

    I doubt they would be killing them off if they were profitable. I do a lot of work in the virtualization and VDI space (not all of it by choice, mind you) and I have never run into anyone even asking about Oracle in those regards. AFAIK the only thing that could be considered really successful is Virtual Box and it's sticking around, thank [omnipotent bearded deity #4].

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  4. Re:Soon they kill Solaris by Score+Whore · · Score: 3, Informative

    This has nothing to do with that kind of virtualization. A much better headline would be:

    Oracle to Stop Developing Thin Clients