Sun Snags Innotek--Should I Wince? Feb 17, 2008, 13 :00 UTC (5 Talkback[s]) (9775 reads) (Other stories by Serdar Yegulalp)
"Sun just made another open source acquisition: Innotek, the makers of the open source VirtualBox virtual machine application. Unlike MySQL, though, this is one open source acquisition that hits home for me in a major way.
"I've been using virtual machines as testbeds in one form or another for years. On a modern and decently equipped PC (multiple cores, more than one hard drive), they're a far more convenient way to do controlled work with software and operating systems than having an entirely separate computer..."