Free Software Linux

Red Hat announced today that it will acquire Qumranet, the company behind KVM. Now Qumranet does not make its money on KVM, instead it uses KVM as part of its desktop virtualization solutions. Qumranet is also behind the very efficient SPICE protocol. I think this is a great move on both sides and I’m excited to hear a former IBM colleague’s bold move into a startup has paid off. I knew it would only be a matter of time before Qumranet was acquired, but it’s great to see it finally went through. Great ideas and technology leadership deserve to be rewarded. I think you can expect to see an increase in KVM usage in RHEL going forward ;-) I saw the press release here: http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080904005327&newsLang=en

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