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Google has plans in Server Market: Will VMware be next?



I am very passionate about VMware and the talented folks who hang out there. (Who wouldn't be part of that group!?!). Anyways Google's cool acquisition of PeakStream means that they will soon be into this market. What baffles everyone is that speculations and other stuff just doesn't touch them. These guys are having real fun. So is VMware actually!

And now Google buys pricey software tools that seem like they might be handy. Were Google so flush with cash five years ago VMware might have turned into a helpful Goobuntu partitioning add-on rather than an industry standard piece of software driving data center spending. In another year, Google may well purchase Sun just to add some Java talent or gobble Red Hat because it needs more Linux support staff.

It's easy to make too much of the PeakStream buy, trust us, but the reality is that we're left with just one real player in the single-threaded-to-multi-threaded code market - RapidMind.


OK so this really doesn't sound reassuring and I really don't think these guys buy talent "for fun". If they do go for VMware then they'll be into the Server market like never before!
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