Yeah, the EMC purchase of VMware was like three or four years ago, no? Will S., are you on here still? He would know. Anyway, no, I remember a little more clearly that it was Citrix that bought one of the middle security players. I'd google it, but that wouldn't be any fun. ;)
Wait, was it Citrix? Or did they buy Altiris? Or is that wrong too? Oh lord, forget it. I'm getting old.. -- Puryear Information Technology, LLC Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 http://www.puryear-it.com Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices Identity Management, LDAP, and Linux Integration Fernando Vilas wrote: > On Sunday 23 September 2007 20:09:34 Dustin Puryear wrote: >> Well, it's not NEW news per se. VM software has never been risk-free--no >> software is. And as far as "between" VMs, well, there is a big VMware >> market for software that acts as a sentry between VMs to watch for >> problems and attacks. Funny, eh? >> > Sounds like a virtual router/firewall/IDS to me. Useful, but it also smacks > of the market created by MS for security software in the 1990s. > >> Didn't EMC or someone just buy one of those smaller VM security vendors >> up? I think so. >> > > Xen was either created at or bought by Novell, and Sun has a partnership with > them relating to OpenSolaris playing nice with Xen. KVM is open source and > mostly came from the qEMU project before being merged into the mainline linux > kernel. I think the VM vendor that EMC bought was VMWare, unless you were > referring to one of the watchdog type software suites. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
