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Posted in Free/Libre Software, Microsoft, Virtualisation at 11:30 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
EMC is Microsoft’s partner of the year for 2008 and it also caused a lot of trouble inside VMware (overthrowing its management), which it put in the hands of a former, abusive executive from Microsoft. It’s neither intended to advance Free software nor to promote GNU/Linux.
=> caused a lot of trouble inside VMware | abusive | executive from Microsoft | neither intended to advance Free software nor to promote GNU/Linux
We are therefore apprehensive about discovering that EMC has just announced that it would acquire SourceLabs.
=> ↺ announced that it would acquire SourceLabs
SourceLabs, an open source software support startup based in Seattle, has been sold to storage giant EMC for an undisclosed price, according to a source familiar with the deal.
For more analysis, see:
EMC reportedly buys SourceLabs, but for what purpose?EMC Acquires SourceLabs, And With It Open Source Documentation Project SWiKEMC gets open source mojo cheap
What might this acquisition be for? █
“…[C]ut off Netscape’s air supply.”
–Paul Maritz, Vice President, Microsoft (Now VMWare CEO)
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