Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced that it has entered into a stock purchase agreement to acquire innotek, the provider of the leading edge, open source virtualization software called VirtualBox. By enabling developers to more efficiently build, test and run applications on multiple platforms, VirtualBox will extend the Sun xVM platform onto the desktop and strengthen Sun's leadership in the virtualization market.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (Business Wire EON) February 12, 2008 --
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced that it has entered
into a stock purchase agreement to acquire innotek, the provider of the
leading edge, open source virtualization software called VirtualBox. By
enabling developers to more efficiently build, test and run applications
on multiple platforms, VirtualBox will extend the Sun xVM platform onto
the desktop and strengthen Sun's leadership in the virtualization market.
With over four million downloads since January 2007, innotek’s
open source VirtualBox product has been quickly established as one of
the leading developer desktop virtualization platforms. Now, as part of
the Sun xVM portfolio, VirtualBox will have the support of Sun’s
global development community, field resources and partners to make
VirtualBox even more compelling to developers and end users, driving
greater adoption across a broad set of communities. VirtualBox enables
desktop or laptop PCs running the Windows, Linux, Mac or Solaris
operating systems to run multiple, different operating systems
side-by-side, switching between them with just a click of the mouse.
This allows software developers to more easily build multi-tier or
cross-platform applications, or power-users to take advantage of
applications that may not be available for their base operating system
of choice.
"VirtualBox provides Sun with the perfect complement to our recently
announced Sun xVM Server product," said Rich Green, executive vice
president, Sun Software. “Where Sun xVM Server
is designed to enable dynamic IT at the heart of the datacenter,
VirtualBox is ideal for any laptop or desktop environment and will align
perfectly with Sun’s other developer focused
assets such as GlassFish, OpenSolaris, OpenJDK and soon MySQL as well as
a wide range of community open source projects, enabling developers to
quickly develop, test and deploy the next generation of applications."
VirtualBox is open source, and can be freely downloaded without the
hassle of payment or frustrating license keys at virtualbox.org or
openxvm.org. The download is less than 20 megabytes and the software is
easily installed on any modern, x86 architecture laptop or desktop
system running Windows, Linux, Mac and Solaris operating systems, in
just minutes. Supported guest operating systems include all versions of
Windows from 3.1 to Vista, Linux 2.2, 2.4 and 2.6 kernels, Solaris x86,
OS/2, Netware and DOS.
The Sun xVM family of products uniquely integrates virtualization and
management to help customers better manage both physical and virtualized
assets across heterogeneous environments. Previously announced products
in the Sun xVM line include Sun xVM Server and Sun xVM OpsCenter. Sun
xVM Server is a datacenter grade, bare-metal virtualization engine with
advanced features such as live VM migration and dynamic self-healing,
and can consolidate Windows, Linux and Solaris operating system
instances. Sun xVM Ops Center is a unified management infrastructure for
both physical and virtual assets in the datacenter. Sun has announced
partnerships and endorsements for xVM with Microsoft, RedHat, Intel,
AMD, Symantec and Quest Software. More information about Sun xVM
solutions can be found at: http://www.sun.com/xvm.
The agreement to acquire innotek follows Sun's announcement on January
16 of a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL, the world's most popular
open source database. These acquisitions reaffirm Sun as the largest
commercial open source contributor.
The stock purchase agreement to acquire innotek is subject to customary
closing conditions and is expected to be completed during the third
quarter of Sun's 2008 fiscal year. The terms of the deal were not
disclosed as the transaction is not material to Sun's earnings per share.
About innotek
innotek is an internally funded software company located in Stuttgart,
Germany with offices in Dresden, Berlin and the Russian Federation. Its
team of international specialists has focused entirely on the
development of high-tech system software. innotek has been at the
forefront of PC virtualization technology since 2001 and now staffs
Europe's largest and most experienced team of PC software virtualization
experts with numerous Fortune 500 and government customers.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global
marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is the Computer (TM)"
-- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community
development and open source leadership. Sun can be found in more than
100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.
Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo and Java are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the US and other
countries.
Safe Harbor
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve
risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements include
statements regarding VirtualBox extending Sun's xVM platform onto the
desktop and strengthening Sun's leadership in the virtualization market,
Sun support making VirtualBox even more compelling to developers and end
users and driving greater adoption across a broad set of communities,
VirtualBox aligning perfectly with Sun's other developer focused assets,
the expected completion of the transaction and the timing of such
completion. Such statements are just predictions and involve risks and
uncertainties such that actual results and performance may differ
materially. Factors that might cause such a difference include the
inability to consummate the transaction and the failure to successfully
integrate the innotek assets and employees into Sun. These and other
risks are detailed from time to time in Sun's periodic reports that are
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Sun's
annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2007 and
Sun's quarterly reports on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarters ended
September 30, 2007 and December 30, 2007.
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