What does the future hold for Oracle's virtualization acquisitions?

On May 13, Oracle announced that it had acquired privately held Virtual Iron, just three weeks and a couple days after the Sun acquisition announcement on April 20. Within a few weeks, Oracle's x86 virtualization game has turned into a triple play. So what does this mean for Virtual Iron, Sun and Oracle virtualization customers? Oracle's plans for Virtual Iron are now fairly well known, but we must wait out the quiet period before Sun xVM customers learn their fate. Oracle's interest in Virtual Iron Oracle initially launched its Oracle Virtual Machine (OVM) product in the fall of 2007. OVM is built on the Xen open source hypervisor code and integrated with Oracle's own custom Linux kernel and management utilities that make up the Xen service partition. The product is available for free, but Oracle sells support subscriptions... [read full story]                    

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