<bill gates> we can do it bigger! 20GB of closed source virtualized goodness coming right up!

The website tells a lot about a product

If it's bare and basic and to the point then it means the software is likely to be pretty decent. If it's covered in flash and orientated more towards "look at what we can do in photoshop" rather than their product being good, chances are they had the same goals with the product

DSL - basic plain website, Distro fits on a mini-CD (one of those little things that goes in the inner circle on the drive)

Microsoft - flashy animations everywhere, Vista: comes on a friggin DVD

you can't have fancy graphics and is fast and efficient at the same time, it's a trade off - and for something as performance critical as a virtual machine i know which I'd prefer to be the priority...

cue comments about random 12 year old with his little VB program that takes 10 minutes to display "hello world" that has a crap website

I use virtual machines for testing software on multiple operating systems as i develop it (err, of course I have licenses for all of them mr gates, must be in my other trousers...) and I currently use vmware, there is only one single reason for not switching to virtualbox, the lack of a tabbed window mode for multiple systems. That is it, everything else is equal or better than vmware and it seems to perform better, as well as being smaller and less bloated (plus being open source increases the chances of a small efficient fork if they ever decide to go with the bloat)

Well, good for them, but this is very bad for the eCS OS/2 community

I am quite happy that Innotek.de had developed a product that a major player wants. I hope the principles and staff all make out well from this purchase.

However, as someone who has been associated for many years with the Warpstock.com community, this appears to be a sad day.

Innotek was the innovator who was able to take the ODIN project (similar to WINE) to the level where it was practical on the OS/2 platform to run indivdual programs written for windows on OS/2-eCS.

Innotek was who brought font anti-aliasing to OS/2 eCS

Innotek brought JAVA, FLASH, and Acrobat to the OS/2 - eCS versions of Firefox and the desktop.

Innotek brought Open Office to OS/2 -eCS to the OS/2 community.

Without Innotek it certainly would have been truly over for those of us who still maintain IBM's object oriented desktop OS.

It now fully lies on the work of NetLabs.org to continue OS/2's development and ability to continue to be valid alternate desktop.

All the products that have promised in the past 7 years to give us virtualization on OS/2 have been bought out. First Connetix's VirtualPC (which released a product that worked well, but never updated), then the contractors who did SVista stopped doing the planned OS/2 version, and now Innotek's VirtualBox....maybe we'll still be able to use some of the opensource....

Good Luck to everyone at Innotek! - Stan S.

And just as they were getting good...

I've been using VirtualBox for a while, and its just gotten pretty decent. I hope Sun doesn't destroy it too hard.

As for virtualization tools that haven't been bought by megacorps... Qemu probably hasn't, and I think Xen is still owned by themselves. Then again these things are going fast, so who knows what has changed since I last checked?

Good web site, good app

What's the author on about? I wish more web sites were like that.

I've been a heavy VMWare user for a while but have only tried it out of interest a couple of weeks ago. Pretty much as good as VMWare and I would agree it is faster. I hope Sun look after it well since it shows a lot of promise.