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Quite a ?/OSS portfolio. Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lazywally) Comments VritualBox is a sure shot!! http://osnews.com/thread?300607 http://osnews.com/thread?300607 What a great move from Sun Microsystems. Innotek's VirtualBox is a great piece of software, great contender to VMWare, watch out!!! Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Javier O. Augusto) Comments wow http://osnews.com/thread?300609 http://osnews.com/thread?300609 Sun is making a lot of really bold and incredibly intelegent moves. Virtual box is an amazing VM i am interested to see where all these leads to. Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (poundsmack) Comments More OSS to the people! http://osnews.com/thread?300612 http://osnews.com/thread?300612 This is good for us. I wish Sun could by Microsoft and then they would surely open source Windows, Office, etc. The more companies Sun buy, the better for us! :o) Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kebabbert) Comments RE: More OSS to the people! http://osnews.com/thread?300613 http://osnews.com/thread?300613
This is good for us. I wish Sun could by Microsoft and then they would surely open source Windows, Office, etc. The more companies Sun buy, the better for us! :o)


And after they open source windows they will start giving away money on the street. Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (prymitive) Comments Good for VirtualBox and Sun http://osnews.com/thread?300618 http://osnews.com/thread?300618 Personally, I love VirtualBox. Unlike VMWare, they make file sharing easy (no SAMBA needed) and their interface is a lot cleaner than VMWare (which has borders and GUI elements takes up far too much real-estate if the resolution of your virtual machine is close to your desktop resolution).

There are only two things that give VMWare the edge:
1) Stability. VirtualBox with Windows 2000 can crash. This doesn't happen with VMWare
2) VM file portability. With VMWare, I can make one Virtual machine, and make a backup or alternate version or move it to another machine simply by copying the directory. VirtualBox requires you to use a reindexing tool and reattachment which isn't 100% hasslefree.

Sun will definitely fix (1) and that may be enough to push me off of VMWare, but I'm really hoping that Sun also take cares of (2) also since it is a maintenance issue.

Nice move Sun! Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (g2devi) Comments ...... http://osnews.com/thread?300624 http://osnews.com/thread?300624 Good look by Sun.Long time user of Virtualbox.Great product. Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (islander) Comments Innotech? http://osnews.com/thread?300626 http://osnews.com/thread?300626 Actually man, I make more money selling magazine subscriptions than I ever did at Intertrode!
 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (RedIcculus) Comments What about me? http://osnews.com/thread?300660 http://osnews.com/thread?300660 When will Sun buy me?? They're buying everyone else lately ;) Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (BSDfan) Comments Sounds familiar http://osnews.com/thread?300662 http://osnews.com/thread?300662 Innotek? Isn't that the company in Office Space? Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (smitty) Comments RE: Sounds familiar http://osnews.com/thread?300675 http://osnews.com/thread?300675 Maybe Sun will finally get those problems with the TPS reports straightened out. Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Zoidberg) Comments RE: Sounds familiar http://osnews.com/thread?300678 http://osnews.com/thread?300678 Basically, but the spelling was Initech in Office Space ;) Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Jondice) Comments RE: What about me? http://osnews.com/thread?300684 http://osnews.com/thread?300684
When will Sun buy me?? They're buying everyone else lately ;)


How much are you for sale for? And if I buy you can you be open sourced ;) Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Matt Giacomini) Comments RE[2]: What about me? http://osnews.com/thread?300707 http://osnews.com/thread?300707 Pennies my friend, just pennies.. ;)

As for my source code.. I'm only an amalgamation of /dev/random and pong.Edited 2008-02-13 03:05 UTC Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (BSDfan) Comments "And like that, it was gone..." http://osnews.com/thread?300713 http://osnews.com/thread?300713 And like that, Sun became a virtualization company... Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Luminair) Comments RE[2]: Sounds familiar http://osnews.com/thread?300721 http://osnews.com/thread?300721
Maybe Sun will finally get those problems with the TPS reports straightened out.


Won't happen until they can address the PC LOAD LETTER issue. Wed, 13 Feb 2008 06:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (elsewhere) Comments RE: "And like that, it was gone..." http://osnews.com/thread?300743 http://osnews.com/thread?300743 Don't forget the Solaris Zones or BrandZ Zones running Linux ;) Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SCHWEjK) Comments RE[2]: More OSS to the people! http://osnews.com/thread?300745 http://osnews.com/thread?300745 If SUN bought Microsoft, dont you believe they would open source Windows, Office, etc? SUN would open source everything else in their product portfolio Solaris, Java, SPARC CPU, ZFS, DTrace, etc etc etc, except Windows, Office, etc? Is that so, you mean? Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kebabbert) Comments RE[3]: More OSS to the people! http://osnews.com/thread?300761 http://osnews.com/thread?300761 not that it matters, as we really do not want the winblows and Microsoftoffice code. About the only people who want are people making aides to blind people, as this would surely be a side effect of looking at it... Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Redeeman) Comments RE: "And like that, it was gone..." http://osnews.com/thread?300770 http://osnews.com/thread?300770 Who knows what Sun is anymore....
They used to sell machines with Sparc processors running Solaris....now they're selling AMD processor machines running Windows or Linux. They have became a Dell / HP / Gateway etc. Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (FunkyELF) Comments Don't know what to think... http://osnews.com/thread?300771 http://osnews.com/thread?300771 I love VirtualBox, been using it for over a year.
They seem to be on a roll all by themselves adding features and such.
Will this slow them down? Speed them up? Whow knows.

I really don't know what to make of this buyout. Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (FunkyELF) Comments RE: "And like that, it was gone..." http://osnews.com/thread?300842 http://osnews.com/thread?300842 Hadn't you heard? It's been in development for a while.

Edit - Link was already in the article.Edited 2008-02-13 18:21 UTC Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (xxxspuddy) Comments RE[3]: More OSS to the people! http://osnews.com/thread?300853 http://osnews.com/thread?300853 Why would they open source windows? How on earth would that be any good for them? Selling windows means a lot of profit, open sourcing it means no profit. Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (prymitive) Comments RE[2]: More OSS to the people! http://osnews.com/thread?300895 http://osnews.com/thread?300895 I would say that after releasing sources of Windows they would start spreading Bubonic plague on streets ;) . Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kajaman) Comments I love this company http://osnews.com/thread?300896 http://osnews.com/thread?300896 Suddenly I found myself in situation where most of my favorite software comes from one single company - Sun Microsystems. I use and like Java, I love Netbeans 6, I run Windows in Virtualbox and use both - PostgreSQL an MySQL for my work and hobby. I'm waiting to see what they are creating with Project Indiana... Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kajaman) Comments RE[4]: More OSS to the people! http://osnews.com/thread?300937 http://osnews.com/thread?300937 Why SUN would open source Windows, Office, OOXML, etc - if SUN bought Microsoft? Well... SUN has opened everything it has? Why would SUN behave differently if they acquire Microsoft? Do you mean SUN behaves irrationally, open sourcing somethings, but refuses to open source the rest?

It sure took time to open Java, several years, but SUN had to prove that they owned every line of code. That took time. They will surely open everything left also. And they will surely open everything they buy also. Otherwise that wouldnt fit into SUNs new strategy; open everything it has. Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kebabbert) Comments