Sun Microsystems is expanding its interest in virtualization, acquiring German developer Innotek, makers of the open source VirtualBox, which enables users to run desktop operating systems like Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X side-by-side. Sun did not disclose the terms of the acquisition, save to say it won’t have a material impact on Sun’s earnings. Sun plans to use VirtualBox to extend its own Sun xVM virtualization software, which is a hypervisor system based on the open source Xen project.
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