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February 13, 2008

Sun Buys German/Russian Innotek

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Sun Microsystems says it will acquire Innotek for an undisclosed amount. Founded in June 2000, Innotek is a Germany-headquartered, Russian build vendor of open source desktop virtualization software.

Since its release in January 2007, VirtualBox was downloaded over 4M times. The product competes with another Russian developed product Parallels from SWSoft. According to a 2007 survey by DesktopLinux.com, VirtualBox is the third most popular software package for running Windows programs on Linux desktops.

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