Comments on: Sad day for people who signed onto SUN’s virtualization strategies. https://virtuallyfun.com/2013/07/16/sad-day-for-virtualbox-fans-and-other-people-who-signed-onto-suns-virtualization-strategies/ Fun with Virtualization Wed, 24 Jul 2013 08:25:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: tenox https://virtuallyfun.com/2013/07/16/sad-day-for-virtualbox-fans-and-other-people-who-signed-onto-suns-virtualization-strategies/comment-page-1/#comment-41096 Wed, 24 Jul 2013 08:25:56 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=3129#comment-41096 In reply to Andrew Gong.

You should trust no company. Companies are for profit. If there is no profit they kill stuff. It was quite obvious that virtualization or SPARC weren’t the things Oracle bought Sun for. So no surprise here.

]]> By: Andrew Gong https://virtuallyfun.com/2013/07/16/sad-day-for-virtualbox-fans-and-other-people-who-signed-onto-suns-virtualization-strategies/comment-page-1/#comment-40830 Wed, 17 Jul 2013 16:06:27 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=3129#comment-40830 I really hope Oracle keeps their promise because VirtualBox works very well as an alternative to VMWare. They almost killed Openoffice and MySQL was dead later on after Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems (now Maria DB continues on MySQL’s legacy). I don’t trust Oracle as much as Sun itself.

]]> By: ampharos https://virtuallyfun.com/2013/07/16/sad-day-for-virtualbox-fans-and-other-people-who-signed-onto-suns-virtualization-strategies/comment-page-1/#comment-40828 Wed, 17 Jul 2013 12:46:52 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=3129#comment-40828 Maybe using VMWare was a good idea now that I look back. VirtualBox in next on the chopping box, QEMU is only a shadow of itself, and so on…

This has been a bad year for desktop virtualization.

]]> By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2013/07/16/sad-day-for-virtualbox-fans-and-other-people-who-signed-onto-suns-virtualization-strategies/comment-page-1/#comment-40795 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 16:22:04 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=3129#comment-40795 In reply to Michal Necasek.

thanks for the update!

]]> By: Michal Necasek https://virtuallyfun.com/2013/07/16/sad-day-for-virtualbox-fans-and-other-people-who-signed-onto-suns-virtualization-strategies/comment-page-1/#comment-40793 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 16:14:32 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=3129#comment-40793 There seems to be some confusion. See https://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/entry/important_information_about_oracle_desktop (last paragraph).

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