Red Hat mystifies with Qumranet purchase

Courtesy Enterprise Linux Log  Tue, 09/09/2008 - 13:12

Less than a week after Red Hat Inc. ’s surprise $107 million purchase of Qumranet Inc.

, I remain mystified by this acquisition. Qumranet is the Israeli-based creator of the KVM open source hypervisor, which is incorporated into the Linux kernel; SolidIce virtual desktop, which Qumranet launched earlier this year but has yet to gain serious traction, and Spice, a super-fast communications protocol for transmitting bandwidth-heavy multimedia content at high speed that other vendors currently can’t match.
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