Oracle kills Virtual Iron-ware
Found on The Register on Friday, 19 June 2009
Little more than a month after acquiring Virtual Iron for an undisclosed fee, Oracle is effectively killing the company's virtualization product.
As many expected, Oracle intends to meld Virtual Iron's product with its own Oracle VM.
But Oracle has not said when the combined product will arrive, and Virtual Iron's partners and customers may feel that Oracle has left them out to the cold in terminating the company's product so swiftly.
"So basically, anyone that built their hosting infrastructure on VI...is now totally in the shit," that partner tells us.
"We value your investment and expertise in server virtualization, and encourage you to begin your partnership with Oracle right away," the letter reads.
That's the worst way to deal with customers I've heard about for quite some time now. Simply buying another company and then practically flipping off their customers doesn't make a good impression. Most likely, it drives users to the competition (which is good). Oracle, you didn't make any friends with that move.