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Farewell Connectix: Microsoft Snares a Mac Icon
By Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac
February 20th 2003
Will MS kill VPC?
Connectix, the company behind RAMDoubler, SpeedDoubler and VirtualPC, has been
acquired by Microsoft, in Redmond's second Silicon Valley purchase inside a month.
Connectix is a long-time Mac developer, best known in recent times for VirtualPC, its
emulator which lets Windows and Windows applications run on a Mac in software.
Around half Connectix's 100 employees will move to Redmond, while the other half, who
work on Mac products, will stay in the Valley with Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit.
MS will reportedly release a product utilizing Connectix's technology which allows
Unix-based operating systems to run on Windows servers, apparently in a bid to
outflank Oracle and Sun.
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