{"id":82353,"date":"2008-02-25T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T21:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infraops.wordpress.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2023-07-19T13:09:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T20:09:57","slug":"sun-buys-virtualbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/sun-buys-virtualbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun buys Virtualbox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Not to be left out of the Open Source buying frenzy, Sun has recently acquired an OS virtualization product called &#8220;VirtualBox&#8221; that looks to be a boon for developers and for IT Administrators looking for standalone lab environments. Sun already had a server consolidation virtualization product (datacenter grade) in xVM Server, but didn&#8217;t have a standalone desktop virtualization application (like VirtualPC or Parallels.) Now they do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VirtualBox&nbsp; was an open source project, and Sun has committed to keeping it free, but as with all open source commercial acquisitions, this sort of move always raises mixed feelings: it&#8217;s nice to have some dollars behind continued development, but people love their free software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20081220013527\/http:\/\/www.infoworld.com:80\/article\/08\/02\/12\/Sun-to-buy-VirtualBox-maker-Innotek_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Infoworld&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not to be left out of the Open Source buying frenzy, Sun has recently acquired an OS virtualization product called &#8220;VirtualBox&#8221; that looks to be a boon for developers and for IT Administrators looking for standalone lab environments. Sun already had a server consolidation virtualization product (datacenter grade) in xVM Server, but didn&#8217;t have a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[433],"class_list":["post-82353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-talk","tag-infraops"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":441,"label":"Tech Talk"}],"post_tag":[{"value":433,"label":"InfraOps"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/jorgep-BlogPostGeneric.jpg",1024,512,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Jorge Pereira","author_link":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/author\/jorge\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":441,"name":"Tech Talk","slug":"tech-talk","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":451,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":678,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":441,"category_count":678,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Tech Talk","category_nicename":"tech-talk","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":433,"name":"InfraOps","slug":"infraops","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":443,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":91,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}