>-----Original Message----- >From: vbox-users-boun...@virtualbox.org [mailto:vbox-users- >boun...@virtualbox.org] On Behalf Of Alexey Eremenko >Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 1:56 PM >To: VirtualBox end user list >Subject: Re: [vbox-users] oracle acquisition news on vbox > >1. nobody knowns the future. So little reason to speculate around. > >2. project is open source, which means there are options: >2.A. your company could buy out VBox division from Oracle >2.B. your company could hire VBox developers from the current team >2.C. your company could find engineers wiillling to maintain it >2.D. some OSS people will pick up the project and maintain it. >2.E. some other Linux company (RedHat/Novell/Mandriva/Canonical) could >pick up this project and maintain it > >3. If OpenOffice stays, I hope that VBox will too... > >-- >-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" >
Alexey, because of the vbox license there are definitely a lot of options and it also eliminates the "fear" aspect. I think people are missing my original intention to this thread. What has Oracle publicly stated their intention is with vbox? One news source says: "Oracle plans to integrate Sun VirtualBox as part of the Oracle VM family and use it as a sort of sandbox, which means that the company may want to integrate its offering with the acquisition of some virtual lab automation companies out there in the near future." Geoff _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
