"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..."
