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4 Feb 2010

On Jan. 27 Oracle announced it had finalized its acquisition of Sun. In doing so it adds a number of open source darlings to its portfolio, MySQL, Java and VirtualBox to mention just a few.

Now that Oracle has acquired VirtualBox, what does this mean for the virtualization market?

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No time has been wasted in rebranding the Sun websites and products that now come under the Oracle umbrella.

Most notably the MySQL website totally separates the MySQL’s commercial arm from the community site. And unsurprisingly, the Sun website redirects entirely to Oracle’s home page.

The reworking of the VirtualBox logo to include the Oracle brand is much more subtle and unobtrusive. This may be telling of Oracle’s future plans for VirtualBox. Unlike many of Sun’s products (ahem, MySQL), VirtualBox clearly stands out as a foothold into a new market for Oracle, the same as Sun’s hardware division.

Oracle’s move into the virtualization market will undoutedly stir things up. We can expect VirtualBox to be driven hard to assert Oracle’s new position in this maturing marketplace.

For sure, Oracle will certainly be a more agressive competitor than Sun.

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Tags: commercial arm, competitor, darlings, foothold, future plans, hardware division, new position, sun websites, virtualbox

Andreessen-Backed Makara Unveils Cloud Application Deployment And Management Platform

In: web resources

2 Feb 2010

Stealth startup Makara is launching publicly tonight with its cloud-based application deployment and management platform. Formerly known as WebappVM, Makara has raised angel funding from Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. The startup also raised $6 million last year from Shasta Ventures and Sierra Ventures.

Rather than offer a system management software designed for traditional application environments to the cloud, Makara’s cloud-based platform leverages the virtual layer to allow developers to rapidly deploy, scale and monitor applications in cloud environments. The product, which is self-service and self-managing, is available for free on its site.

The startup’s platform allows developers to deploy new or existing web applications to a public or private cloud with no code changes. Once the application is deployed, developers can control the application runtime and have cluster-wide visibility into end user response times end-to-end through the entire stack. Makara’s offering supports Java, Flex, PHP, JBoss and Tomcat applications and runs on Amazon EC2, Rackspace Cloud, Terremark vCloud Express, VMware ESX, VMware Workstation, VirtualBox and Xen. Makara faces competition from rPath.

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Google Chrome Installation Resources and Downloads

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26 Nov 2009

In the past week Google debuted its new operating system called Chrome. Have you tried it yet?
In todays news we have some resources to show you were to download and how install Chrome. And then decide for yourselves how good… or bad… it actually is.

Want To Try Out Google Chrome OS For Yourself? Here’s How…

Most people won’t be ready to undertake the daunting task of actually taking Google’s recently open-sourced code and turning that into a bootable computer. So, in this article, they have put together a step-by-step guide to doing this, for free. It should only take about 15 minutes (depending on how long it takes to download the OS itself).

Want To Try Out Google Chrome OS For Yourself? Here’s How…

Download Google Chrome OS and Run it from a USB Drive

Within 24 hours of its availabilty, the web was littered with disk images for running the new Google OS on virtual machines such as VMWare and VirtualBox. As an alternative, this article shows you how to run Chrome directly from a USB drive.

Download Google Chrome OS and Run it from a USB Drive

Download Google Chrome OS for free – gdgt

This is one of the many places to download the Google Chrome OS. Signup here , takes about 2 minutes, and then you can download it.
You will need VMWare Player or VirtualBox to run the OS.

Download Google Chrome OS for free – gdgt

By Paul Andrew (Speckyboy and speckyboy@twitter).

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