The move is seen as an indication that Oracle bought Virtual Iron for its server virtualisation management technology, and not for its channel or partner base. Oracle has closed the sales and channel business of Virtual Iron in the wake of its acquisition of the server virtualization vendor. Solution providers have received termination letter from Oracle and a couple of key sales and channel executives have left Virtual Iron, signs that Oracle's main purpose in acquiring Virtual Iron is to absorb its technology into its Oracle VM server virtualisation offering. Oracle last month acquired Virtual Iron Software in a move to use server virtualisation to boost its software application business and in the process its competitiveness in relation to Microsoft. Virtual Iron developed server virtualisation products, including a... [read full story]
